Posted: Jan 27, 2021 11:00 PM ET | Last Updated: January 28
Seaton House, the largest homeless shelter in Toronto, has one case of COVID-19 and was added this week to the list of local shelters with outbreaks.(City of Toronto)
City officials say they are working to contain COVID-19 outbreaks at 10 homeless shelters in Toronto that have left 66 unhoused people infected with the virus.
As of Tuesday at 2 p.m., Roehampton Residence, a shelter hotel, and the Salvation Army-Maxwell Meighen Centre, a shelter for men, have 16 cases each. Warden Woods Community Centre respite services has 11 cases.
Seaton House, the city s largest shelter, was added to the list this week with one case.
A pilot project that aimed to vaccinate homeless people in Toronto s shelters has been put on hold due to a vaccine shortage, local officials said Wednesday.
A pilot project that aimed to vaccinate homeless people in Toronto's shelters has been put on hold due to a vaccine shortage, local officials said Wednesday.
Posted: Dec 16, 2020 8:27 PM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
City crews cleared debris from what is known as the Fort York encampment following two fires, one Tuesday night and another early Wednesday.(CBC)
There have been 11 encampment fires in Toronto since Friday but fire officials say they are not the work of a serial arsonist.
Toronto Acting Fire Chief Jim Jessop said on Wednesday that the causes of the fires are varied and ignition sources include everything from candles, cigarettes, lighters and open flames.
Some have been intentionally set, he said. Many are still under investigation. There is no indication whatsoever from Toronto Fire Services perspective that this significant rise in fires is attributed to for lack of a better word a serial arsonist or a person or a group of persons intentionally setting fires, Jessop told CBC Toronto.