Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered questions regarding COVID-19 testing for migrant workers and farmers in the province on Tuesday, saying that they have tested over 700 workers in the Windsor-Essex area and that the “number one priority” of farmers is to make sure their workers are safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Ontario government extends emergency orders until July 10

Ontario government says it is extending its emergency orders for the COVID-19 pandemic until July 10.Premier Doug Ford said the province has made good progress in reducing the spread of the coronavirus but Ontarians need to remain vigilant.The province also said it will loosen some restrictions around indoor sports and fitness to enable amateur and professional athletes to train.

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Coronavirus: Ford accuses the U.S. of a “reckless approach” to COVID-19

Comparing his own government’s response to the novel coronavirus to the steps taken by the Trump administration, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the U.S. had taken a “reckless approach” to the virus which has “come back to bite them.”

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Coronavirus: Ford says province ‘can’t enforce’ order making masks mandatory

Premier Doug Ford said on Friday that Ontario would not introduce a provincial order mandating that medical masks be made mandatory amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, adding that while he supports municipalities that want to make it mandatory to wear masks, a province-wide order couldn’t be enforced.

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271 coronavirus deaths could have been prevented by removing 4-bed care rooms, study suggests

novel coronavirus could have been prevented at Ontario nursing homes if residents were placed in two-bed rooms instead of four-bed rooms, according to a new study.The study from researchers at University of Toronto, McMaster University and Public Health Ontario found residents in more crowded facilities were twice as likely to get infected and die from the virus.“We are confronting it now because of the scale of the deaths.”While more crowded rooms didn’t affect whether a long-term care home had an outbreak, the study found the spread of the virus was higher in four-bed rooms, with a 9.7 per cent infection rate versus 4.5 per cent in the least crowded.Deaths were 2.7 per cent and 1.3 per cent respectively, according to the study, which has

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Coronavirus caseload in Canada increases by 380 while Atlantic provinces see no new cases

coronavirus cases and 20 COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours.The new numbers bring the national tally to more than 102,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 — the bulk of them in Ontario and Quebec — and a death toll of 8,504. How many Canadians have the new coronavirus? Total number of confirmed cases by region More than 65,000 people are considered recovered across the country, as active cases number a little over 28,500.Ontario saw 189 new cases and 10 fatalities on Thursday.

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Anger, frustration over continued closures, mayor of Leamington, Ont., says

COVID-19 says small businesses are being driven to bankruptcy.Hilda MacDonald, mayor of Leamington, Ont., says she is “livid” tight restrictions remain on her community and in neighbouring Kingsville, Ont.Premier Doug Ford says the two communities in southwestern Ontario will stay in Stage 1 until coronavirus outbreaks on farms can be addressed and case counts lowered.

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Trudeau says provinces ‘failed to support seniors’ amid new coronavirus pandemic

Justin Trudeau said that provincial governments have “failed to support seniors” in their handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, while floating the idea of bringing in national standards at long-term care facilities.Trudeau was responding to a newly released report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information that found long-term care residents made up 81 per cent of all reported COVID-19 deaths in Canada compared to an average of 42 per cent among all countries studied.“I think one of the things that is very clear is our current system of supporting seniors across this country has not worked,” Trudeau told reporters outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa Thursday morning.“It is a provincial responsibility.

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Coronavirus: Ford defends handling of COVID-19 crisis in long-term care homes after damning report

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Thursday defended Ontario’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the province’s long-term care homes after a report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) found Canada’s long-term care homes, of all the OECD countries, were the hardest hit by the novel coronavirus.

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NDP MPP swears at Premier Doug Ford in legislature

NDP MPP Taras Natyshak swore at Premier Doug Ford in the provincial legislature on Wednesday after he asked Ford about coronavirus testing for migrant workers in the Windsor region.

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Coronavirus: Most of Windsor region to move to Stage 2, except for areas with farm outbreaks

COVID-19 farm outbreaks, Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday.The only exceptions will be the communities of Leamington and Kingsville, which have seen large numbers of cases among migrant workers.Ford said he has a plan to address the situation on farms, while also allowing COVID-19 positive but asymptomatic workers to continue on the job, with safety protocols in place.“This is one of (farmers’) busiest times of the year,” Ford said. “They need the extra help and unlike other professions, most of it is outdoors and isolated.” 163 new coronavirus cases, 12 deaths in Ontario; total cases at 34,016 Ontario’s chief medical officer of health said testing of migrant workers found a cluster of asymptomatic positive people.

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11 new coronavirus cases reported in Waterloo Region, total cases at 1,268

coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the local total to 1,268.Some of the new cases are part of an outbreak at Sunnyside Home Long-Term Care in Kitchener where there are four staff members and one resident with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Ontario extends state of emergency to July 15, Doug Ford hopes it’s last extension Parkwood Mennonite retirement home is reporting one resident with the disease as well.Forest Heights Revera Long-Term Care is the region’s most significant outbreak with 178 cases among residents and another 69 among staff.

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Coronavirus: Ontario announces reopening plan for Windsor-Essex

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Wednesday that the Windsor-Essex region, with the exception of Leamington and Kingsville, will move into Stage 2 of Phase 2 of reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic as of June 25.

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Ontario extends state of emergency to July 15, Doug Ford hopes it’s last extension

Ontario has extended its state of emergency to July 15.Premier Doug Ford has said he is hopeful that will be the last extension of the emergency declaration.The motion passed the legislature this morning.Many of the emergency orders made under the state of emergency are expected to continue even after July 15, including bans on large gatherings.

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Coronavirus outbreaks on farms are holding back the entire region, says Windsor mayor

COVID-19 on local farms.Drew Dilkens said Tuesday that the high number of COVID-19 cases on farms in Essex County was holding back the entire region, and the local economy could not face another week of delay.The mayor said public health officials have failed to ensure all migrant workers are tested for COVID-19, and called on farmers to step in so the region can join the rest of the province in Stage 2 of reopening.“While the local health unit has thus far refused to test the full temporary foreign worker population, this next week presents an opportunity for our local agricultural community to step in where public health officials have failed,” Dilkens said in a statement.

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With new coronavirus cases daily, experts worry parts of Ontario are reopening too fast

Stage 2 on June 24.Most of Ontario entered Stage 2 on June 12, which includes the reopening of hair salons, restaurant patios and swimming pools. Only the Windsor-Essex region will remain in Stage 1 until further notice, the Ontario government announced on June 22, as Premier Doug Ford said the region has not seen the same level of case decline.Some experts, however, are concerned that the Toronto and Peel regions have not seen a significant enough decline in cases of the coronavirus, and are worried about public health repercussions as the province moves forward.Toronto has seen 13,893 confirmed and probable cases, with most the result of community spread or from residents being in close contact with a positive COVID-19 person.

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Some Hamilton bars, restaurants not able to capitalize on patio expansion

Hamilton records just one new case, enters Stage 2 of coronavirus reopening Friday Eisenberger says the seven are located “adjacent to a residential area”, a condition that restricts them from operating a patio under the city’s zoning rules.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Eisenberger describes it as “a bit of a complex issue”, adding that “I don’t think we can potentially open up every location for (an) outside patio, it’s really intended to allow those who already had a patio to utilize them and expand them if they could.” No singing or dancing allowed as Ontario restaurant patios reopen Premier Doug Ford touched on the issue during his briefing on Tuesday, and voiced some sympathy for the

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Mexican government to resume sending migrant workers to Canada

Ottawa has struck a deal with the Mexican government to improve conditions for migrant workers on Canadian farms, allowing them to return to Canada.

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Coronavirus: Toronto, Peel Region to enter stage 2 on Wednesday

The battle has been long, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford said it is not over and there has been significant progress. Travis Dhanraj reports on the latest reopenings as part of stage two..

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Coronavirus: Toronto to enter Stage 2 of Phase 2 reopening on June 24, includes reopening of restaurant patios

Hours after Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that the City of Toronto and Peel Region would be joining Stage 2 of Phase 2 of the province’s reopening, Toronto Mayor John Tory on Monday discussed what types of businesses and services would be able to reopen on June 24, which includes restaurants and bars with patios, malls, splash pads and more.

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Coronavirus: Ontario and federal government to invest $50 million in Enhanced Agri-food Workplace Protection Program

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Monday that together with the Canadian federal government, the province would be investing $50 million in the Enhanced Agri-food Workplace Protection Program to assist farmers with buying personal protective equipment (PPE) for their workers and increasing safety measures like installing physical barriers, as well as setting up a PPE directory to help farmers source masks and gloves amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ontario, federal governments to team for more farm inspections

Ontario government says it will work with Ottawa to conduct joint inspections of farms and the living conditions of migrant workers.The province’s labour minister says the two levels of government will begin inspections this week.Advocates say the cramped quarters migrant workers share on farms have contributed to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Coronavirus: Toronto, Peel Region to join Stage 2 of Phase 2 reopening in Ontario, Ford says

On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that as of 12:01 a.m. on June 24, the City of Toronto and Peel region would be joining the rest of the province in entering Stage 2 of Phase 2 of the province’s economic reopening amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Toronto, Peel Region to officially move into Stage 2 of province’s reopening plan

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Premier Doug Ford will make the announcement at 1 p.m. Monday during a news conference at Queen’s Park, along with other ministers.

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London Health Sciences Centre staff protest pandemic pay exclusion

COVID-19.“They work directly with the patients every day and risk … being exposed, and some have been,” said Sarah Omelia Muylaert, LHSC UNIFOR Union chair.

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Ontario government to announce plan for reopening schools in September

Ontario is set to announce a plan today for reopening schools in September.Schools across the province have been closed since March 13, when the government moved to shut down much of the province to address the spread of COVID-19.The school year has continued with remote learning since then, and Education Minister Stephen Lecce had promised a plan for a safe September reopening by the end of this month.He is set to make the announcement today with Premier Doug Ford.

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More Ontario regions now in Stage 2 of COVID-19 reopening

Ontario are moving into the second stage of the province’s reopening plan today, including parts of the Greater Toronto Area.York, Durham and Niagara are among the areas allowed to further open their economies, though Toronto, Peel and Windsor-Essex will remain in the first stage until at least next Friday.Most areas were allowed to enter the second stage last Friday, except for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas, some regions that border the United States and those with COVID-19 outbreaks among migrant workers.

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Coronavirus: Ontario to pilot new COVID-19 contact tracing app

Ontario Premier Doug Ford revealed details about a new COVID-19 contact tracing app named COVID Shield, will begin testing in Ontario and will be part of the province’s contact tracing strategy ahead of a potential second wave of the virus in the fall.

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Ford says new COVID-19 contact tracing app has ‘100 per cent privacy’

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday to discuss a COVID-19 contact-tracing app that is launching in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford addressed concerns of privacy surrounding the new technology, saying the app has ‘100 per cent privacy’ and implored the public to download the app for the safety and protection of everyone amid the pandemic.

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Premier Doug Ford pleads with Ontario’s ‘scared’ migrant workers to get tested for coronavirus

COVID-19, acknowledging that the current testing strategy has captured only a small slice of the migrant population in a region with several outbreaks.Ford made the comments one day after a local hospital in Windsor-Essex – one of only three regions not allowed to enter Stage 2 of reopening this week – announced it was closing a centre designed to test the workers.Only 724 workers – out of the region’s 8,000 temporary foreign workers – have been tested since the centre was opened on June 9.Ford said he would do “anything” to help test more workers and stop the spread of the virus on farms. Not working with the government, he said, isn’t fair to the rest of the region.

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Coronavirus: Premier Doug Ford talks about long-term care, SickKids report

Premier Doug Ford spoke about a report from SickKids Hospital Wednesday regarding the impacts of school not resuming in September. He also spoke about long-term care. Travis Dhanraj reports.

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Coronavirus: Ford says plan coming for safe return to school, will work to ensure teachers’ safety

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday that a plan would be rolled out by Education Minister Stephen Lecce soon that will ensure a safe return to school.

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Coronavirus: Ford says he will not support ‘bad actors’ in long-term care COVID-19 deaths

Asked about a Global News report that found almost a third of Ontario nursing home resident deaths were at facilities owned by just two corporate chains, Premier Doug Ford said that he does not support “bad actors” and will hold them accountable.

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Coronavirus: Ontario extends emergency orders until June 30

coronavirus pandemic.The province is enforcing emergency orders under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act due to the virus.The government said that while all current emergency orders will remain in place until the end of June, the province will review each order on a case-by-case basis to determine if it can be adjusted or lifted as Ontario reopens. “Extending these emergency orders gives our front-line health-care providers the necessary flexibility to rapidly respond to urgent needs and protect our most vulnerable,” Premier Doug Ford said.“Even though we’re seeing decreasing infection rates with increased testing levels, we can’t let our guard down just yet.

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Doug Ford says he’s not prepared to make masks mandatory

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has received a request from one GTA mayor asking that province to make masks mandatory in places where social distancing isn’t possible.

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Coronavirus: Ford ‘highly recommends’ wearing face masks in stores after outbreak reported at Richmond Hill Home Depot

When asked if the government would consider mandating wearing face coverings in some businesses for employees and customers after it was reported that 14 staff members tested positive at a Home Depot in Richmond Hill, Ontario’s Health Minister Christine Elliott said that “physical distancing is still the most important rule to follow” and that masks should still be worn in situations where physical distancing isn’t possible.

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Coronavirus: Ontario’s worst hit nursing homes and who owns them

COVID-19 were living at facilities owned by just two corporate chains, according to a Global News analysis of government statistics.Sienna Senior Living and Revera Inc. long-term care facilities have lost 525 residents altogether, according to the figures.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Ford names more regions set to start Stage 2 of Phase 2 reopening

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced additional regions on Monday that have been given the green-light to proceed with Stage 2 of Phase 2 of the regional reopening process in the province starting June 19.

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More Ontario regions to enter Stage 2 of reopening Friday; Toronto, Peel, Windsor still excluded

coronavirus case numbers, though Toronto, Peel Region, and Windsor-Essex will continue to be excluded.Premier Doug Ford made the announcement during a press conference Monday afternoon. Stage 2 allows for the reopening of outdoor dining services at bars and restaurants, shopping malls, outdoor recreation facilities, hair and beauty salons, as well as barbershops, among other changes.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Toronto reported 85 new coronavirus cases on Monday, while Peel Region reported 41.

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Coronavirus pandemic pay premium has not flowed to workers, Ontario government says

Ontario says it has not yet paid approximately 375,000 frontline health-care workers a promised pandemic pay premium.A spokeswoman for the province’s health minister says the initiative is the largest of its kind in Canada and the funding will flow in “very short order.”The government says it has provided written funding commitments to employers, and that will be followed by the flow of money.

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‘Party Under the Stars’ digital concert supports coronavirus front-line workers, first responders

COVID-19 pandemic, and will feature surprise guest musical performances from artists such as George Canyon, Jason McCoy and the Singing Soldiers.

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Coronavirus: Four United Churches in Barrie, Ont., to remain closed

novel coronavirus pandemic.Burton Avenue United Church, Collier Street United Church, Grace United Church and Northwest Barrie United Church will continue with online worship. On Monday, Premier Doug Ford announced that places of worship would be allowed to reopen at 30-per-cent building capacity on Friday, and that people can gather in groups of 10, up from the former limit of five.“It is our collective decision to keep our buildings closed at this time,” United Church leaders in Barrie said.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Premier Ford announces 24 regions to move to phase 2 reopening

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday announced that 24 regions in Ontario are going to move to stage two of reopening following the lowest number of COVID-19 cases since March.

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Ontario health minister seen at LCBO while reportedly waiting for coronavirus test results

coronavirus test results, but at a press conference Thursday, she said she was following the medical advice that she was given.In a photo sent to CP24, Elliott is seen wearing a mask while shopping in the wine section of an LCBO.

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Coronavirus outbreak: CAF won’t withdraw from Ontario long-term care homes June 12

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton said during a press conference on Thursday that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will not be withdrawing from long-term care homes with COVID-19 outbreaks on June 12 as originally planned.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Ontario long-term care minister elaborates on new visitation guidelines

Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care Merrilee Fullerton on Thursday elaborated on the guidelines of a phased visitation plan for long-term care and retirement home residents, after Premier Doug Ford announced that homes without COVID-19 outbreaks would slowly begin allowing familial visits starting June 18.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Ontario long-term care minister elaborates on new visitation guidelines

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Coronavirus outbreak: Ontario’s outbreak-free long-term care homes to allow for family visits starting June 18

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Thursday that long-term care homes and retirement residences in the province not experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks will allow for the “cautious restart” of family visitors starting June 18.

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Ontario announces ‘cautious’ restart of allowing visitors into long-term care, retirement homes

coronavirus pandemic.Premier Doug Ford made the announcement alongside ministers Christine Elliott, Merrilee Fullerton and Todd Smith at his daily press briefing at Queen’s Park on Thursday.Fullerton said one visitor will be allowed per resident for one outdoor visit per week at long-term care homes. The visitor must have tested negative for coronavirus in the past two weeks.For retirement homes, Fullerton said residents will be allowed indoor and outdoor visits.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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