A personal support worker at a long-term care home in the Greater Toronto Area where 53 residents died says the facility is not ready for a second wave of COVID-19.

People in Ontario can now visit loved ones in long-term care and retirement homes under strict rules and guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A Toronto-based law firm said it has notified the province of Ontario that it's launching a class-action lawsuit on behalf of long-term care residents.

Ontario's ombudsman is launching an investigation into the province's oversight of long-term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global News reviewed inspection reports going back to the beginning of 2019 for the five care homes Canadian Forces teams were dispatched to in mid-April.

The Ontario premier, who has been facing fierce criticism over the handling of COVID-19 outbreaks in seniors homes, said some inspections were done by phone.

Premier Doug Ford needs to acknowledge that although his government didn't create this long-term care crisis, it must accept culpability for exacerbating it, Bill Kelly says.

"In over 20 years of political service, I have never been so outraged, so disgusted, so saddened and so horrified by what I learned today," Andrea Horwath said.

Downsview Long Term Care in Toronto will be managed by Humber River Hospital, and River Glen Haven Nursing Home in Sutton will be managed by Southlake Regional Health Centre.

Ontario's Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton says in a statement that "an independent non-partisan commission is the best way to conduct a thorough and expedited review."