{"id":13756,"date":"2020-05-05T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2020-05-18T01:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:09:27","slug":"46-staff-19-patients-test-positive-in-toronto-western-hospital-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/46-staff-19-patients-test-positive-in-toronto-western-hospital-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"46 staff, 19 patients test positive in Toronto Western Hospital outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Two people have died and dozens of staff and patients are sick in a coronavirus outbreak at a downtown Toronto hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports suggest four separate COVID-19 outbreaks at the 256-bed Toronto Western Hospital at Bathurst and Dundas Sts., infecting 19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreaks were declared between April 18 and April 30.<\/p>\n<p>According to the University Health Network (UHN) website, 74 patients across its five hospitals have contracted the potentially fatal respiratory disease, with 29 receiving intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted by the Sun, UHN Public Affairs Vice-President Gillian Howard declined to confirm the number of fatalities at the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn any given day we are caring for between 70 and 80 COVID positive patients on our sites,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information is posted on our website twice a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said 2,028 staff had been tested for COVID-19 as of Monday, with 79 tests returning positive and 63 fully recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is no longer accepting new admissions, she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bpassifiume@postmedia.com\">bpassifiume@postmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/local-news\/46-staff-19-patients-test-positive-in-toronto-western-hospital-outbreaks\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and dozens of staff and patients are sick in a coronavirus outbreak at a downtown Toronto hospital.Media reports suggest four separate COVID-19 outbreaks at the 256-bed Toronto Western Hospital at Bathurst and Dundas Sts., infecting 19 patients.The outbreaks were declared between April 18 and April 30.According to the University Health Network&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15605,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}