{"id":43928,"date":"2021-04-19T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=43928"},"modified":"2021-04-19T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:02:37","slug":"additional-support-for-ontario-to-fight-the-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/additional-support-for-ontario-to-fight-the-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional support for Ontario to fight the COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> has been working to do whatever it takes \u2013 for as long as it takes \u2013 to protect and support Canadians. As\u00a0the number of new cases in <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span> continues\u00a0to escalate to unprecedented levels due to variants of concern, we are working with the Province to protect the health and safety of Ontarians and support the capacity of our health care\u00a0system.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister, <span class=\"xn-person\">Justin Trudeau<\/span>, today announced that the federal government is working to provide additional, emergency support to fight the COVID-19 outbreak in <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending federal health care\u00a0staff and equipment to the front lines\u00a0in <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span> to care for people across the province, particularly in areas that are most impacted.<\/li>\n<li>Boosting rapid testing to help stop the spread of the virus, and working with municipalities and businesses to deploy them to hot spots across <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span>, support contact tracing and isolation, and make workplaces safer.<\/li>\n<li>Investing <span class=\"xn-money\">$84.2 million<\/span> to support voluntary safe isolation sites, including across <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span>. These sites have already helped 3,900 Ontarians isolate safely to prevent the spread of the virus.<\/li>\n<li>Signing\u00a0a\u00a0bilateral agreement between the Government of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> and the\u00a0Government of <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span> to enhance virtual health services in the province. This agreement comes with <span class=\"xn-money\">$46 million<\/span> in funding to expand <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario&#8217;s<\/span> efforts on virtual health care during the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Providing an additional supply of tocilizumab and other needed drugs for <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span> through reallocation from other provinces and territories. Tocilizumab is used to treat severe pneumonia in COVID-19 patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These measures build on yesterday&#8217;s announcement that the federal government is providing a two-month extension on two Mobile Health Units (MHU), until <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 30<\/span>. These MHU\u00a0were approved in January and are currently deployed in\u00a0Toronto and <span class=\"xn-location\">Hamilton<\/span>. The federal government also stands ready to deploy the Canadian\u00a0Red Cross to help the province with its\u00a0mobile vaccination teams, and the Canadian Armed Forces is working with partners to determine what additional support they can provide to <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> is also working closely with provinces and territories to facilitate extra support for <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span>, including sending medical supplies and health care workers, and has offered to cover the costs.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of every <span class=\"xn-money\">ten dollars<\/span> spent in <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> to respond to the pandemic have come from the federal government. This has included support through the purchase of vaccines,\u00a0personal protective equipment, rapid testing, contact tracing, and funding to help make schools safer for students and teachers.\u00a0We\u00a0will continue to provide the provinces and territories support and take a Team Canada approach to beating this virus, so we can keep all Canadians safe and healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Canada has been working to do whatever it takes \u2013 for as long as it takes \u2013 to protect and support Canadians. As\u00a0the number of new cases in Ontario continues\u00a0to escalate to unprecedented levels due to variants of concern, we are working with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 12:38:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43929,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43928\/revisions\/43929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}