COVID-19.The executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition says redeploying the Canadian Armed Forces to the hard-hit facilities is not the group’s first choice, but that there aren’t many short-term options.Natalie Mehra says outbreaks in long-term care home have been “growing extremely quickly” and death counts are mounting.
At least 52 residents have died at Toronto long-term care home after coronavirus outbreak She says that hospitals are treating a worrying number of patients, and some are experiencing outbreaks of their own.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]As of Thursday — the most recently available data — the province was reporting 1,235 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 337.