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TORONTO – Time is up. Since today, staff in Ontario’s long-term care homes, if they want to continue working in these facilities, must be fully vaccinated. The original deadline set for workers in the sector among the most affected by Covid-19 has been postponed from November 12 to December 13, said LTC ministry spokeswoman Vanessa De Matteis, following the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization. →
TORONTO – After the two doses, elderly residents of long-term care and retirement homes are now recommended the booster vaccine. To recommend its administration is the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) which has included this suggestion among its guidelines updated in recent days. Residents of these facilities “are at greater risk of Covid-19 infection due to their daily interactions with other residents and staff, as well as being at greater serious illness due to their age and previous pathologies”, reads the document. →
In Ontario nursing homes seniors are dying again. A resident of The Village of Tansley Woods Long-Term Care Home who had contracted Covid-19, the Delta variant to be precise, did not make it. →
She has taken on “all the responsibilities” but she did not apologize. A few days after the Ontario Long-Term Care Commission submitted to the government a report very embarrassing on long-term care homes, LTC Minister Merillee Fullerton suggested the cause of the tragedy at these facilities was to be found in the slow pace of government bureaucracy. →
TORONTO – It’s a report pointing the finger in various directions that the Ontario Long-Term Care Commission has presented to the Ontario government. →
