The chair of Toronto’s Board of Health is calling on the province to conduct “proactive testing” for COVID-19 in the city’s northwest corner, an area where he says infection rates have been up to 10 times higher.
Coun. Joe Cressy wrote an open letter to Health Minister Christine Elliott and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams on Thursday in which he pressed them “to act swiftly” to protect residents in poorer communities that he said are being “disproportionately impacted” by the virus.
He said that the province can help by conducting proactive testing in “high-incidence neighbourhoods, including northwest Toronto.” “Early analysis of Toronto Public Health’s data indicates that people working in certain occupations are at a higher risk for COVID-19, including sales and service, trades and transportation and manufacturing. Many employees in these industries are classified as essential workers and therefore have not been able to work from home,” he wrote.
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