An average of 40 people a night were told there was no bed available for them in Toronto homeless shelters in the last year and a half, newly released city data shows.
A resident of Seaton House has died after testing positive for COVID-19 as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to make its way through emergency shelters in Toronto.
As 34 homeless shelters grapple with COVID-19 outbreaks, an isolation centre for unhoused people with the virus is 95 per cent full and that means the facility will accept only complex cases.