Toronto struggles with surging COVID-19, PM Trudeau pledges help

Canada gov't will help Toronto as it struggles with COVID-19, says PM Trudeau The Canadian government will help Toronto as the country's largest city struggles to cope with a rapidly worsening wave of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. Reuters,David Ljunggren Reuters

he Canadian government will help Toronto as the country's largest city struggles to cope with a rapidly worsening wave of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.

Toronto is the capital of Ontario, the most populous of the 10 provinces, where cases could treble by the end of May unless tough restrictions are imposed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. cited sources as saying.

Some Ontario hospitals say they are close to breaking point as the latest wave rips through the province. The head of its main nurses organization is demanding a full lockdown including a curfew.

"In Toronto in particular, numbers are breaking record after record ... there's no doubt that Canada's largest city is struggling under the weight of this third wave. So we're going to do whatever it takes to help," Trudeau told reporters. ...

The team lead from Humber River Hospital's mobile vaccine clinic, Ruben Rodriguez, administers the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to an employee of pharmaceutical company Apotex, as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 13, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

Ontario, home to 38% of Canada's population, announced a record 4,736 daily cases on Thursday and the CBC said this could hit 18,000 by end-May if current trends continued. ...