The end of December was likely when Toronto hit its peak for influenza season, according to Toronto Public Health's latest respiratory illness update, but COVID-19 infections are expected to stay high.
As health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them.
A Mississauga-based real estate company has donated $75 million to the Scarborough Health Network and the University of Toronto to improve health care in the eastern Greater Toronto Area, officials said on Wednesday.