Public Health Ontario

• Ontario Science Table calls for provincial strategy to manage long COVID

  In a science brief, the panel of experts warned symptoms that persist after someone is infected with COVID-19 could reduce their quality of life and increase reliance on others.

  Health

  Sep 7
  
• Public Health Ontario to have final say on topics studied by new science table

  The provincial government agency says the new team will provide it and the Ministry of Health with scientific and technical public health guidance.

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  Sep 1
  
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• Ontario’s science table says province plans to create smaller group of advisers

  Members of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table say Public Health Ontario has informed them the group is being dissolved as of Sept. 6.

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  Aug 26
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• Public Health Ontario reports 529 monkeypox cases as of Monday, up from 478 last week

  The report says nearly 75 per cent of the confirmed cases are in Toronto and all but three cases are reported among males. 

  Canada

  Aug 17
• Public Health Ontario reports 478 confirmed monkeypox cases, up from 449 last week

  The agency's latest report on the illness says 75 per cent of cases were reported in Toronto.

  Health

  Aug 10
• Ontario confident in monkeypox vaccine strategy, Moore says, but some seek expansion

  Dr. Kieran Moore says the province has vaccinated more than 20,000 people against monkeypox, with the priority group being gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

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  Aug 8
• Monkeypox cases rise to 423: Public Health Ontario

  The agency's latest report says most of the cases (nearly 78 per cent) were reported in Toronto.

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  Aug 3
• Monkeypox case confirmed in Toronto shelter system

  The individual was transferred to an isolation and recovery site, a system first set up during the COVID-19 pandemic to stop the coronavirus from spreading in congregate settings.

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  Aug 1
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• Public Health Ontario reports 367 confirmed cases of monkeypox

  Public Health Ontario says there were 367 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the province as of Thursday, up from 326 on Monday.

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  Jul 29
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• Public Health Ontario reports 230 monkeypox cases, up from 156 in last update

  The provincial agency's latest report says the cases are largely in southern Ontario, with 172 cases in Toronto, as well as one each in Sudbury and North Bay.

  Health

  Jul 19