Ontario Investing in Wearable Contact Tracing Technology to Help Protect Workers from COVID-19
Innovative Made-In-Ontario technology will help stop the spread of COVID-19 while creating skilled jobs
SCARBOROUGH The Ontario government is providing Facedrive Inc. with $2.5 million through the Ontario Together Fund to accelerate the deployment of its wearable contact tracing technology, TraceSCAN, which alerts users within a workplace who have been in close contact with individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19. The company anticipates manufacturing about 150,000 devices under this project and creating 68 new jobs, including software, firmware and hardware engineers and machine learning specialists. In our fight against COVID-19, Ontario is continuing to support companies like Facedrive that are developing the innovative technology that adds new layers of defence against this global pandemic, said Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. T
Ontario Government Investing in TraceSCAN Wearable Contact-Tracing Technology to Help Protect Workers from COVID-19
Innovative Made-In-Ontario technology will help stop the spread of COVID-19 while creating skilled jobs Facedrive Inc. a Canadian “people-and-planet first” technology ecosystem, is pleased to announce that the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade has endorsed and agreed to provide CAD $2,500,000 in non-dilutive funding to TraceSCAN, the COVID-19 wearable contact-tracing solution developed … Innovative Made-In-Ontario technology will help stop the spread of COVID-19 while creating skilled jobs Facedrive Inc. (” Facedrive “) (TSXV:FD) (OTCQX:FDVRF), a Canadian “people-and-planet first” technology ecosystem, is pleased to announce that the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade (the “
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The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has launched a petition urging the Ontario government to permit small businesses to reopen with at least a 20 per cent capacity limit.
“Keeping small businesses across the province in lockdown is crushing our local economies,” says the CFIB, whose petition can be found at http://promo.cfib-fcei.ca/saveontario
“Continuing to keep our stores, our gyms, our salons and countless other businesses closed means thousands will not survive. Business owners and their families will lose their futures and many will lose their homes. Employees will lose their livelihoods. Our communities will lose their rich diversity,” says the federation. The petition states: “We must move beyond the “all or nothing” lockdown approach that is leaving our local economies behind. Ontarians need jobs to come back to when this is all over! Let’s show the Ontario Spirit and save our local businesses!”
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Feb 5, 2021 - 11:41am
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has launched a petition urging the Ontario government to permit small businesses to reopen with at least a 20 per cent capacity limit.
“Keeping small businesses across the province in lockdown is crushing our local economies,” says the CFIB, whose petition can be found at http://promo.cfib-fcei.ca/saveontario
“Continuing to keep our stores, our gyms, our salons and countless other businesses closed means thousands will not survive. Business owners and their families will lose their futures and many will lose their homes. Employees will lose their livelihoods. Our communities will lose their rich diversity,” says the federation. The petition states: “We must move beyond the “all or nothing” lockdown approach that is leaving our local economies behind. Ontarians need jobs to come back to when this is all over! Let’s show the Ontario Spirit and save our local businesses!”
January 25, 2021, marks one year since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Canada.
Over a year ago, on January 23, Patient Zero, a man in his 50s, was admitted to Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital with a fever and respiratory symptoms.
On Saturday, January 25, 2020, tests confirmed that the man, who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, had contracted the coronavirus, which is what the virus was known as at the time.
Sunnybrook said that when the patient was admitted last year, the hospital had been preparing for a potential pandemic.
“There is no clear evidence that this virus is easily transmitted between people at this time,” the federal government said. “The overall risk to Canadian travellers and to Canada remains low.”