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Test positivity hit 22.4 per cent this week, compared to less than eight per cent for Ontario overall Posted: 7 Hours Ago Last Updated: 3 Hours Ago
A person walks past an Amazon Fulfillment Centre during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brampton, Ont., Tuesday. Brampton s COVID test positivity rate reached 22.4 per cent this week, in part because of crowded working and living conditions. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
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Dr. Brian Goldman donned PPE and returned to Brampton to find out if workers and their families are getting access to the COVID vaccine. Brian talks to Dixon Pinto, who grew up in Brampton and is studying health inequities at McMaster University. Brian meets up with Dr. Shruthi Gowda, a family physician at an urgent-care clinic just a short drive from an Amazon warehou
Canadian health officials shut Amazon warehouse after mass COVID-19 outbreak
Public health authorities ordered an Amazon fulfilment centre in Brampton, Ontario, to shut down for 14 days Friday, following a massive COVID-19 outbreak that has infected 240 workers in recent weeks. At least 10 cases at the facility, located in the Greater Toronto Area that has 6.2 million residents, have been linked to the new variants of the virus that are more contagious and lethal.
Demonstrating its utter contempt for the lives and safety of its employees, the company released a statement shortly after its doors were shuttered announcing it would appeal the shutdown order. Amazon spokesman Dave Bauer rejected the notion that “the data supports this closure,” citing recent test positivity rates of “less than one percent.”