The Ontario Ministry of Health has announced that Wednesday morning’s count of additional COVID-19 cases is 100. It brings the total of confirmed active cases in the province to 671.
LRT workers at Black Creek positive for virus
The Black Creek LRT site known as West Portal One has been shut down temporarily after three workers tested positive for COVID-19. One employee is confirmed to have the virus and two others are presumptive positive but are waiting for official confirmation from the national lab in Winnipeg.
Public transit a perilous place
Evidence that public transit is a perilous place was revealed again Wednesday when Peel Region Transit revealed that a bus driver had tested positive for COVID-19 and that he had worked on four routes in recent days. Peel Region Health has said that riders on these routes are not believed to be at any “additional risk” of contracting the virus but the rationale here isn’t clear. They say that the driver is currently self-isolating at home. Earlier in March, it was revealed that a man who had recently returned from Egypt and then proven positive had ridden the Hamilton-Toronto GO bus several days in a row.
