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City Toronto: Health Eileen

city toronto: The board subsequently approved a motion calling on all three levels of government to support the measure in order to curb virus spread in the city, according to NOW Magazine. Toronto Public Health TPH has done new data analysis of geographic neighbourhoods hardest hit by the virus that shows the infection rate is almost as four times as high among people living in overcrowded housing. Medical Officer of Health Eileen de Villa recommended the move in a report that was presented to the Toronto Board of Health at a virtual meeting on Thursday. In the report, de Villa said the facility would be for people who live in large, crowded households where adequate space is not available to follow isolation or quarantine guidelines. Toronto has already created self-isolation sites for people experiencing homelessness and have become infected. She notes that Chicago and New York have created a similar programs using thousands of hotel rooms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.