The head of Ontario's public health agency is temporarily stepping away from his job, a day after the premier called the province's low rate of COVID-19 testing "unacceptable." Dr. Peter Donnelly, the president and chief executive of Public Health Ontario, took a medical leave Thursday. Donnelly took over the public health body in November 2014, leaving a position as a professor of public health medicine at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. But in recent weeks, testing has turned out to be a significant weak spot in Ontario's response to COVID-19. Later that day, the province appointed a former Toronto public health head, Dr. David McKeown, as a troubleshooter, charged with rethinking the province's response to the pandemic.

Source: CBC News April 09, 2020 19:41 UTC