Ontario continues ramping up to manufacture ventilators, masks and other equipment to respond to COVID-19.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is launching a website to connect with businesses and people who want to help.
Meanwhile the Premier reiterated that he is not going to fully shut-down the province unless he gets the order from medical experts.
Doug Ford emphasized he is not ruling anything out to deal with the coronavirus, including measures to help the homeless population.
The Premier says he’s considered housing homeless people in hotels and motels, rather than crowded shelters where the virus could spread more easily. The question comes after a Toronto-area shelter resident tested positive for the coronavirus.
“That’s on the table already, and I want to thank all the hotel owners that have come forward. I know there’s one hotel right across from St. Mike’s there, that has 260-some-odd rooms available,” Ford notes.
There are currently 369 confirmed positive cases in Ontario, two deaths, and six people who no longer have the virus.
