[ad_1] Nine months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials still face a puzzle as troublesome as it was at the start of the outbreak: defining how cases are spread in the community. In Ontario, up to 60% of cases have unknown sources of transmission. The lack of …
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[ad_1] On a day when new restrictions have been introduced for Toronto and the Peel region in recent weeks in an attempt to reign in record-breaking daily COVID-19 cases, a palliative care physician specializing in long-term care says he is “terrified. “from the growing numbers of cases in nursing homes …
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[ad_1] If hot regions of Ontario fail to keep COVID-19 under control, stronger mandatory measures may be needed to slow the spread and manage the virus, epidemiologists warn. It’s a strong message that came the day Toronto reported a record 538 new infections, four deaths, and 176 hospitalizations, including 42 …
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[ad_1] The province rejected the advice of its public health agency when it created its new color-coded framework for COVID-19 restrictions, and the executive leading the organization’s pandemic response says it only learned crucial details when were publicly released last week, the Star Has Learned. Health Minister Christine Elliott told …
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