COVID-19 pandemic continues to take a toll on Canada’s health-care workers, with nearly 95,000 cases and 43 deaths reported since the start of the pandemic.The latest figures, as of June 15, 2021, were released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) on Thursday.
Internationally trained health-care professionals unable to help in COVID-19 fight. Here’s why Data collected by CIHI showed a 43 per cent jump in cases among health-care staff across the country since January.
But the share of cases out of Canada’s total tally among the general population has continued to decline — reaching roughly seven per cent — amid greater vaccination coverage, CIHI reported.“It’s been a significant impact on health-care workers who provide.