Long-term care residents beg to go outside after year-long COVID-19 confinement
Advocates say the restrictions make no sense, especially now that almost all residents are vaccinated
Residents of Ontario's long-term care homes begged on Tuesday to be allowed outside, saying anti-pandemic restrictions that have confined them indoors for more than a year make no sense given almost all have now been vaccinated.
Some compared their situations to solitary confinement, and urged the provincial government to act on what they called a gross violation of their basic human rights.-- More...
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