{"id":72945,"date":"2021-01-07T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=72945"},"modified":"2021-01-07T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:39:10","slug":"crosslinx-confirms-28-covid-19-cases-at-lrt-construction-sites-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/crosslinx-confirms-28-covid-19-cases-at-lrt-construction-sites-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosslinx confirms 28 COVID-19 cases at LRT construction sites in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72946\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-72946\" src=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Crosslinx-confirms-28-COVID-19-cases-at-LRT-construction-sites-in-Toronto-Milenio-Stadium-Ontario-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Crosslinx confirms 28 COVID-19 cases at LRT construction sites in Toronto-Milenio Stadium-Ontario\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Crosslinx-confirms-28-COVID-19-cases-at-LRT-construction-sites-in-Toronto-Milenio-Stadium-Ontario-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Crosslinx-confirms-28-COVID-19-cases-at-LRT-construction-sites-in-Toronto-Milenio-Stadium-Ontario-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Crosslinx-confirms-28-COVID-19-cases-at-LRT-construction-sites-in-Toronto-Milenio-Stadium-Ontario-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Crosslinx-confirms-28-COVID-19-cases-at-LRT-construction-sites-in-Toronto-Milenio-Stadium-Ontario.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Crosslinx spokeswoman says the cases are linked to employees and subcontractors at eight sites of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. (Ed Middleton\/CBC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 has hit a major transit project in Toronto.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crosslinx Transit Solutions, the consortium building the\u00a0Eglinton Crosstown LRT,\u00a0says 28 workers have the illness and\u00a0another 70 are in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>A Crosslinx spokeswoman says the cases are linked to employees and subcontractors at eight sites along the future line.<\/p>\n<p>Kristin Jenkins says 17 of the positive cases were community-acquired, 10 people were infected at work and one case is<br \/>\nundetermined.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins says Crosslinx has started issuing formal written notices to workers not adhering to COVID-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Crosslinx took the provincial government to court over alleged COVID-19-related delays and cost overruns with the project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/crosslinx-covid-eglinton-lrt-1.5864764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 has hit a major transit project in Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538,17411],"tags":[18842,18871,18872],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Crosslinx-confirms-28-COVID-19-cases-at-LRT-construction-sites-in-Toronto-Milenio-Stadium-Ontario.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}