The Ministry of Health has seen the number of new COVID-19 cases jump up to 404 Monday prompting virus expert Dr. Isaac Bogoch of the University Health Network to say results like this are not good enough. Dr. Bogoch told CP24 that even the lower range of 300 cases a day seen recently is way too many after two full months of lockdown.
What’s going wrong?
His concern raises the question as to what exactly is going wrong. COVID-19 is insidious but its spread is a function of human behaviour. The government announced last week that testing units would visit workplaces and that “pop-up” mobile testing centres would target hard-hit neighbourhoods. A recently released map of virus incidence in the GTA shows the northeast and northwest areas to be very hard hit. And more than 66 percent of cases of the infection have occurred in the GTA.
Premier says latest spike is foreign workers
An outbreak of COVID-19 in temporary foreign workers is responsible for a sudden jump in cases, Premier Doug Ford says. “One of the reasons they jumped up is 81 migrant workers in southwestern Ontario tested positive,” Ford said. “Overall in the testing, outside of that spike there, it’s looking better.”
