Ontario will provide its own paid sick leave program to help curb the spread of COVID-19 at essential workplaces. The program will run from April 19 to Sept. 25 and will require employers to pay workers up to $200 for up to three days when they are ill or need to get vaccinated. Monte McNaughton,
The City of Toronto announced today it has partnered with volunteer-run initiative Vaccine Hunters Canada to help people find COVID-19 vaccine appointments at city-run clinics. In order to speed up the process of securing a vaccine appointment for eligible Toronto residents, the city will be providing Vaccine Hunters with a list of free next-day appointments
As of 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 27, Ontarians 45 and over in 2021, living in one of 114 high-risk neighbourhoods, will be eligible to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment at a mass immunization clinic. “This is a step forward in Phase Two of our vaccine distribution plan to ensure we are protecting people and communities
Ontario reported 4,212 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday — an increase from the 3,469 cases reported the previous day, but a decrease from the 4,447 new cases reported on Monday and 4,250 cases recorded on Sunday. The province also reported 32 deaths (an increase from the 22 deaths reported the previous day), and 4,204
As of Tuesday, April 20 Ontario will offer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 40 and over at pharmacies and primary care settings. “Last week, based on the review of available data from Europe and United Kingdom, Health Canada announced that it was not restricting the use of AstraZeneca vaccine in any specific populations
Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table released its latest modelling on Friday afternoon, reporting that, COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and ICU occupancy are at the highest levels since March 2020 and are set to go even higher over the short term. “Without stronger system-level measures and immediate support for essential workers and high-risk communities, high case rates
Ontario reported a (daily) record-breaking 4,736 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday (an increase of 1.2 per cent from the previous day), raising the total number of cases in the province to 403,571, with 357,591 resolved cases. The majority of overall cases are in adults aged 20-39 (148,085 cases) followed by adults 40-59 (116,126 cases).
Dr. Phil Shin is the Chief of Medicine and Medical Director of Critical Care at North York General Hospital. With the third wave of COVID-19 rapidly escalating in Ontario and the vaccine rollout scrambling to get back on track, we decided to check in with Dr. Shin to ask him about what he is seeing
Ontario is reporting 2,938 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, a decrease from the 3,041 cases reported Sunday, 3,009 cases reported on Saturday, and 3,089 cases reported on Friday. Monday’s numbers include 906 new cases in Toronto, 533 in Peel, 391 in York Region, 230 in Ottawa, and 140 in Durham. Nearly 36,600 tests were completed
Ontario is reporting 2,336 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday (an increase of 11.6 per cent from the previous day) and 14 new deaths (an increase of 40 per cent from the previous day), with nearly 36,100 tests completed (the COVID-19 positivity rate is at 6.2 per cent — a 0.1 per cent increase from the
Ontario reported more than 2,100 new COVID-19 cases on Friday — a drop from the 2,380 cases yesterday, although that case count was higher by approximately 280 cases due to a data catch-up process related to the provincial CCM system, according to the Ministry of Health. However, today’s numbers are still a major jump from
The Ontario government is investing $3.7 million, as part of the 2021 budget, to help seniors and people with disabilities get to and from their COVID-19 vaccination appointments. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon at a press conference headed by Premier Doug Ford. More details about the program will be released in coming days, but
Toronto private school Upper Canada College is reported to be temporarily closed after numerous positive cases of COVID-19. According to a media report by the CBC, the confirmed cases occurred with students at the private school in grades 4, 8, 9, and 12. When contacted by TRNTO.com, UCC issued a prepared statement. “The school works
As of March 10, Toronto Public Health has administered 211,247 COVID-19 vaccine doses. Approximately 22 clinics—a combination of mobile teams and on-site vaccination clinics via Toronto hospitals and community healthcare centres—are operating on Wednesday to vaccinate priority groups: Unity Health Toronto: vaccinations will take place at two on-site clinics and two mobile clinics in congregate
An online portal for people to book their COVID-19 vaccine appointments in Ontario will be launched on March 15. Retired general Rick Hillier, head of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force, announced on Wednesday that people 80 and over will be able to book their appointments first, beginning on March 22. In April, people over 75
Ontario reported 847 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday — a drop from the 904 cases reported on Tuesday and 964 cases reported on Monday. It is also the lowest number of cases reported since October. The new cases break down to 257 in Toronto, 170 in Peel, and 131 in York Region (although according to
The City of Toronto announced that they are readying nine city-operated COVID-19 vaccination clinics. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Toronto Mayor John Tory cautioned Torontonians that these sites are “not opening tomorrow,” so people shouldn’t line up at these clinics until notified. The target date for opening the clinics will be in early April.
Premier Doug Ford today announced an end to the provincial emergency (to expire, as scheduled, at the end of Tuesday, Feb. 9) as well as plans to gradually move Ontario’s 34 public health units back to the province’s colour-coded reopening framework. Province-wide shutdown measures went into effect on Dec. 26, 2020, to stop the rapid
Ontario reported 1,563 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday — an increase from the 1,172 cases reported on Wednesday and the 745 on Tuesday, although those lower numbers were due to Toronto Public Health migrating their data to the provincial data system, resulting in an underestimation of cases. Of the new cases reported Thursday, 584 are
Providence Therapeutics, based in Toronto and Calgary, is a Canadian biotechnology company founded in 2015 to work in cancer research. Early research work was done with JLABS in Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District as well as the Sunnybrook Research Institute. When COVID-19 hit, the company pivoted and quickly designed a vaccine. Without any domestic facilities, Canada
Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the first reported case of the novel coronavirus in Canada, in a man who was admitted to Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital after returning from Wuhan, China (where the first cases of the virus were reported). Since then, Canada has recorded 747,383 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 664,621 recoveries (88.9 per cent)
Many Ontarians are wondering when lockdown restrictions will ease — particularly hard-hit regions of the province with the most stringent measures. Toronto and Peel Region, for example, entered lockdown on Nov. 23 last year, and just last week — in response to the daily number of COVID-19 cases reaching nearly 4,000 a day in early
Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a provincial state of emergency and a stay-at-home order, effective Thursday at 12:01 a.m., for at least 28 days. The announcement was made at a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, and comes amidst a recent surge in COVID-19 cases that provincial health officials believe can overwhelm the province’s health-care system. Ford’s
The Ontario government is developing more extreme measures to help curb the rising spread of COVID-19 across the province. Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet will consider the final package of measures Monday night at a cabinet meeting, with an announcement being made on Tuesday. A curfew, however, will likely not be part of the new restrictions
The city recently announced new transparency measures to identify workplaces with recent outbreaks of COVID-19 to prevent workplace spread. Along those lines, it can also help to know if the grocery stores you visit frequently have had any recent cases. There are some ways to find out if the grocery store you like to shop at
