COVID-19 ONTARIO
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Extra ventilators arrive in Ontario hospital ICUs to aid COVID-19 patients
Ontario hospital intensive care units now have nearly 2,000 beds equipped with ventilators to help care for COVID-19 patients, an…
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Ontario has only 1 week supply of ‘critical’ protective equipment left, premier says
Ontario currently has just one week’s worth of critical personal protective equipment stockpiled, Premier Doug Ford said Monday. In a…
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COVID-19 in Ontario: Online learning classes begin as cases top 4,000
Online learning is set to start at schools across the province today to ensure students get some form of education…
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What you need to know about Ontario’s at-home learning program that launches today
Schools in Ontario remain closed but classes are technically back in session today as the province’s at-home distant learning program begins.…
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Toronto officials to provide update after Ontario unveils COVID-19 projections
Toronto Mayor John Tory, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa and Head of Emergency Management Matthew Pegg will be providing…
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Ontario to shut down some construction industry sectors amid COVID-19 outbreak, premier says
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that the province will be shutting down some parts of the province’s construction industry amid efforts to…
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COVID-19 could kill 3,000 to 15,000 people in Ontario, provincial modelling shows
Provincial health experts say they expect COVID-19 could kill 3,000 to 15,000 people in the province over the course of the…
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Nurses reveal fears working on front lines of COVID-19 pandemic
Pat Tamlin survived SARS and now the Toronto intensive care nurse is on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.…
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Health officials looking at more high-tech methods to track spread of COVID-19 in Canada
Increasingly frustrated health officials say they are prepared to take more aggressive measures to track and contain people with COVID-19…
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Some internationally trained doctors can apply for 30-day Ontario licence to fight COVID-19
International medical graduates who’ve passed their exams to practise in Canada, or have graduated from school in the past two…
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Ontario confirms 462 new COVID-19 cases, death toll at 81
Ontario confirmed 462 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 3,255. The official tally includes 67 deaths,…
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Regulator, colleges rush to get respiratory therapists working
As the Ontario government scrambles to acquire more ventilators for hospitals in the province, the regulatory body that licenses the specialists who…
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Premier to release ‘really stark’ projections Friday as Ontario confirms 401 new COVID-19 cases
Ontario confirmed 401 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 2,793. The tally includes 16 new…
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Still standing within 2 metres of each other? That could cost you $5K under a new bylaw, Tory says
In Toronto’s bid to stop the spread of COVID-19, city officials announced a new bylaw Thursday that prohibits people from…
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33 dead from COVID-19 in Ontario nursing and retirement homes
At least 33 deaths of residents in Ontario nursing and retirement homes have been linked to COVID-19, almost triple the number…
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Premier heaps praise upon ‘champion’ ASL interpreter
Though Premier Doug Ford’s daily news conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic often carry dire warnings, a bright spot has emerged in…
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Bruce Power donates 600,000 pieces of protective equipment for health-care workers to battle COVID-19
An Ontario power provider is donating 600,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to the provincial government to help in the…
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More than 500 members of Toronto Police Service in self-isolation, says association president
More than 500 members of the Toronto Police Service — including civilian and uniform members — are in self-isolation, says…
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Toronto cancels all city events and permits until June 30 citing COVID-19 outbreak
Toronto Mayor John Tory says all major city events and event permits are cancelled until June 30 as the number of…
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City converts hotel into COVID-19 recovery centre for people experiencing homelessness
In what the chair of Toronto’s Board of Health is calling a first in Canada, the city has converted a…
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April 1 is rent day. Here’s what you need to know if COVID-19 has you worried about paying
For many Ontarians, rent is due on Wednesday, but with so many people out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Ontario students won’t be back at school until at least May, senior government source says
Ontario students won’t be back in the classroom until at least May, a senior source inside the provincial government tells…
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8 GTA firefighters test positive for COVID-19, officials say
At least eight firefighters in the GTA have tested positive for COVID-19, CBC News has learned, including six in Toronto, one…
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Suspected, confirmed COVID-19 patients filling roughly 1 in 4 Ontario ICU beds
More than 430 patients in Ontario hospital intensive care beds have either tested positive for COVID-19 or are suspected to…
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Brampton man charged after faking COVID-19 case to get off work: police
A 39-year-old Brampton man is facing a public-mischief charge after he lied about a family member testing positive for COVID-19…
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Ontario confirms 351 new COVID-19 cases, deaths rise to 33
Ontario confirmed 351 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the provincial tally to 1,706 — the largest single-day increase since…
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TTC employee and 4 people in Toronto’s shelter system among the latest to positive for COVID-19
A TTC Wheel-Trans operator and four people in the city’s shelter system are among the latest Toronto residents to test…
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Ontario health officials provide update on COVID-19 as provincial tally jumps to 993
Ontario health officials are providing an update on COVID-19 after the province confirmed 135 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, including three…
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Cannabis labs eager to aid with COVID-19 testing with 10,000 backlog in Ontario
When John Slaughter finished construction on his 16,000-square-foot cannabis analytical testing facility last year, he never could have predicted it…
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Ontario issuing emergency alert on COVID-19 to phones, radios and TVs
Ontarians will get emergency alerts sent to their cellphones, radios and TVs at 2 p.m. today, warning recent travellers to…
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