Ontario reports nearly 800 new cases of COVID-19 as rolling average continues to slowly decline
Ontario is reporting nearly 800 new cases of COVID-19 today as its rolling seven-day average declines for the second Friday in a row.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 795 new instances of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed over the last 24 hours along with another five deaths.
At least 860 people have died of COVID-19 in Ontario hospital outbreaks. What we now know about the ‘unmitigated tragedy’
At least 860 people have died of COVID-19 in an Ontario hospital outbreak, according to a new public health report that reveals a far larger death toll than had been previously known.
The total, contained in a Public Health Ontario (PHO) epidemiological summary updated earlier this month, means Ontario hospitals have been the province’s second-deadliest setting for COVID-19 outbreaks in the pandemic, behind long-term-care homes and ahead of retirement homes — but with little of the public reckoning seen in those sectors.
“There’s no other way to depict this other than a completely unmitigated tragedy,” said Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, an infectious diseases consultant at the University Health Network and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. The death toll highlights the changes hospitals need to make to better control the spread of respiratory diseases now and in the future, he added.
A hospital stay killed my Mum with Covid she caught there.
