Toronto Western Hospital has declared a fifth COVID-19 outbreak, this time in its emergency room.
According to a report in the Toronto Star, the outbreak was declared after five staff who work in the unit tested positive for the virus.
While the hospital said in the memo that “it is not always necessary to fully close a unit during an outbreak,” it did commit to taking a number of added precautions to limit the further spread of COVID-19 in the unit. They also said that they will be “improving social distancing cues and reorganizing common spaces to facilitate physical distancing.”
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