Brampton, Ont., teen among youngest Canadians to die with COVID-19
A teenage girl in Brampton, Ont., is among the youngest Canadians to die with COVID-19 after her family said she contracted the coronavirus amid the province s devastating third wave.
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Posted: Apr 26, 2021 8:38 AM ET | Last Updated: April 26
Brampton s hospital has been treating a huge number of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic. Last week, a teenage girl died after contracting COVID-19. She is one of just eight Canadians under the age of 19 to die with the illness, according to national statistics.(Christopher Mulligan/CBC)
A teenage girl in Brampton, Ont., is among the youngest Canadians to die with COVID-19 after her family said she contracted the coronavirus amid the province s devastating third wave.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered yet another set of restrictions Friday to try to curb the spread of the pandemic, but some of those measures ran into a firestorm of criticism, so much so that he had to reverse them.
Still, COVID-19 daily case counts in Ontario continue to sky rocket, reaching more than 4,000 a day over the weekend, and hospitals are filling up with COVID-19 patients. Ford admitted, the province is on the ropes.
“We’re losing the battle between the variants and the vaccines, Ford said. We’re on our heels”
It has become an almost weekly increase in restrictions, as Ontario s government scrambles to contain the rapid spread of the third wave of the pandemic. The new measures come in response to intensive care units bursting to capacity.
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Critical care specialist Dr. Kali Barrett talks to Ian Hanomansing about what she fears in the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as ICUs get âvery closeâ to being overwhelmed and what she thinks needs to be done next.
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