More health professionals in Montreal have been diagnosed with COVID-19, increasing calls for more-health care workers to be tested.
At Verdun General Hospital, where LaSalle resident Franco Caputo’s father is a patient, several health-care workers including two doctors have been tested positive for the virus as of April 3.
Caputo said he’s worried. His 83-year-old father was admitted as a patient at the hospital in February. According to Caputo, the family took turns visiting the elder Caputo until the provincial government prohibited visits to health care centres across the province, in order to help limit the spread of the virus to seniors who are more vulnerable. “Obviously because of the virus, we weren’t allowed to attend him any