The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Big number: 282, the number of COVID-19 outbreaks in Toronto connected to workplaces so far. More than half were related to workplaces in offices, warehousing, shipping and distribution, construction and manufacturing.
The number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines given out in Ontario took a steep drop over the weekend, even as new cases and deaths — especially in long-term-care homes — continue to rise.
Some Toronto hospitals have started vaccinating staff who don’t deal directly with patients — and, at Michael Garron Hospital, offering doses to executives — raising questions over the ethics of immunizing these employees ahead of community health workers and the thousands of long-term-care residents and staff still waiting for shots.
Ontario’s long-term-care homes continue be in crisis as the number of positive COVID-19 cases and deaths related to the virus continue to climb. The provincial government is under immense pressure to improve the situation and ensure the health and safety of residents, health-care workers and staff members.
Sometimes you run out of road. Ontario has arrived at a dark place: hospitals falling apart ward by ward, rationed care, the cascading disaster as COVID-19 spins out of control. All along Ontario has said the health and safety of its citizens was the priority, even when it plainly wasn’t. It’s like when this government says, for the people. You have to ask, which ones?
Dr. Tom Stewart is set to get a pay out of more than $1 million because the board of St. Joseph’s Health System approved the controversial vacation that caused him to lose his job as CEO.
When Shaunt Tchakmak signed a lease for his new bar and live venue on Kensington Avenue in January 2020, he had no way of knowing that his business would be forced to close a week before its planned grand opening.
If governments don’t pick up the pace on vaccinations — by a lot — they’re simply not going to get most Canadians inoculated against COVID-19 by the end of this year.
Four out of five Canadians believe the country is still in recession and most fear the pandemic-fuelled malaise could last for years, a new poll finds.
Ontario is not planning curfews to curb the stubbornly rapid spread of COVID-19, a senior government source said as Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet debated other new restrictions to be announced Tuesday following new computer modelling on the pandemic’s trajectory.
The Ontario government needs to introduce five permanent paid sick days — increasing to 10 during an infectious disease outbreak — and strengthen protections for temporary workers amid the pandemic, a new report from Toronto’s medical officer of health says.