Nearly five years ago, Yassin Dabeh’s family fled war-torn Syria for a better life in Canada. Fakih said Dabeh’s father cried when he told him the meals would be served in his son’s honour. “The public health unit investigation is primarily on understanding where individuals contracted an infectious disease such as COVID and where it might be spread and trying to intervene to limit transmission,” he noted. In the health unit as a whole, there have been 601 COVID-19 cases, 292 of which have been among residents and 309 in staff members, as well as 79 deaths. “For a lot of older people, influenza can actually trigger a pneumonia or a co-infection with something like pneumonia.

Source: thestar January 24, 2021 23:18 UTC