Posted: Apr 27, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 27
The city reported on Monday that there are COVID-19 outbreaks at 20 homeless shelters, 328 COVID-19 shelter cases, five people in hospital with COVID-19 and one recent death, as of Sunday at 2 p.m.(City of Toronto)
Twenty homeless shelters in Toronto are trying to control COVID-19 outbreaks and more than 320 unhoused people are infected with the virus, according to data provided by the city.
One 60-year-old unhoused man who died in hospital on April 6 tested positive for the virus after his death, sources told CBC Toronto. The death is linked to an active outbreak at the Homes First Lakeshore Shelter, located at 545 Lake Shore Boulevard W., according to the city s COVID-19 status of cases web page.