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data: At the same time, the board said the provincial government has not committed to collecting this data, according to CTV. Instead, it has been suggested that each of Ontario's 34 local public health units could collect their own data on a voluntary basis, Joe Cressy, who chairs the city's board of health, wrote. In a letter sent to Ontario's minister of health and chief medical officer, the board cites experts who have indicated that socioeconomic data is critical to understanding the pandemic and how the disease spreads. This approach will not provide a complete picture of how COVID-19 is affecting Ontarians. This information prompted officials to start asking those who tested positive for COVID-19 about their ethnicity and socio-economic status. In early May, Toronto's health officials said that preliminary findings suggested the disease disproportionally affected certain communities in the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.