Ontario needs 17,000 new personal support workers and 10,000 more nurses and other health professionals as it grapples with the needs of people in long-term care and the shortcomings exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Minister of Long-Term Care Rod Phillips says.
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OTTAWA There is a low daily COVID-19 case count in Ottawa Wednesday, so low it s a negative figure, and Ottawa Public Health has offered an explanation. OPH reduced the total case count for the city by one case, to 27,334, announcing a new daily update of -1 cases. In a Twitter thread after the dashboard was updated, the health unit said there were actually 20 new cases added Wednesday, but 21 cases were removed from the local total. Every case goes through a quality assurance process. It takes a lot of time & effort, especially when you re in the middle of another resurgence and reporting 300+ cases per day. Sometimes, their work will find that a case previously reported in Ottawa wasn t ours, OPH said on Twitter.