PARTY LEADERS SEEK MORE PROTECTIONS FOR SENIORS

Two of Canada’s four federal party leaders joined a rally at a Toronto long-term care home Sunday afternoon to press the provincial government to do more to protect seniors from COVID-19. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and the Green Party’s Annamie Paul spoke outside St. George Care Community, which is in the midst of one of the largest virus outbreaks in Ontario. Data from the ministry of health shows there are 43 residents and 28 staff members currently infected with COVID-19 at the home. There have been 14 deaths linked to the active outbreak. Paul said her father died there during the first wave of the global pandemic. She’s calling on both provincial officials and members of the public to do their utmost to protect long-term care residents, who have been hit especially hard by the virus. Ontario’s COVID-19 case totals continue to surge on Sunday as the province set yet another single- day high for new virus diagnoses. The government reported 3,945 new infections over the past 24 hours, along with 61 more deaths linked to the virus.