The Ontario government has tightened masking rules in long-term care homes amid a surge of COVID-19 cases. There have been over 7,000 confirmed cases among residents and staff since August, with 106 deaths. There are currently 105 ongoing outbreaks in long-term care homes across the province.
Less than three months into a surge of COVID-19 that has left more than 100 long-term care residents dead, the Ontario government has tightened masking rules in long-term care homes . There have been 7,157 confirmed COVID-19 cases among residents and staff of long-term care homes since Aug. 27, the start of the respiratory virus surveillance season, according to Public Health Ontario . Of those, 181 residents were hospitalized and 106 died.
Meanwhile, there are 105 ongoing outbreaks in long-term care homes across the province. “Should we be seeing this number of outbreaks? No, we shouldn’t,” said immunologist Dawn Bowdish, a Canada Research Chair in aging and immunity at McMaster University.The changes brought in by the province on Nov. 7 require staff, students, support workers and volunteers to wear masks when they are in resident areas in long-term care homes.But visitors and caregivers are not required to wear mask
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