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Coronavirus: As Quebec plans to reopen, care homes still a battleground

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Quebec Premier Francois Legault said this week there are “two worlds” in the province: the world of facilities providing long-term care to seniors, and the rest.

In one of those worlds, schools, stores and factories are preparing to reopen, albeit with restrictions, and sunny spring days have some people musing about the return of fishing, camping and gyms if COVID-19 cases stay under control.

But the situation is very different in the province’s long-term care homes, where dozens of residents die every day and overburdened workers toil in conditions one union leader likens to a war zone.

Seniors residences and long-term care homes account for about 80 per cent of the deaths in the province, and a handful of long-term care homes have more

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