TORONTO — The Ontario government is expected to provide an update today on the deployment of rapid antigen COVID-19 tests in the province.
The update comes a day after the federal government said it will distribute 140 million rapid tests across the country this month -- four times the amount handed out in December.
On Wednesday, a number of stricter health measures - including widespread business closures and a temporary return to online schooling - took effect in Ontario.
The province has also directed hospitals to pause non-urgent surgeries due to skyrocketing COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations.
As well, a group of hospitals in the province urged pregnant people to get vaccinated against the virus, pointing to the recent hospitalization of several infants infected with COVID-19.
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, McMaster Children’s Hospital, the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Kingston Health Sciences Centre issued a joint statement Wednesday, saying six babies under the age of one had been admitted since mid-December.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 6, 2022.
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