A group of over 200 doctors, researchers, and advocates are weighing in.
The group is calling the situation in Ontario's long-term care homes an urgent humanitarian crisis.
They say Ontario must take urgent action to address the rising number of deaths due to COVID-19 in long-term care.
Mean time, public health officials say 99 more people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the province's Simcoe-Muskoka region likely have a variant of the virus first identified in the U-K.
Officials say most of the cases are linked to a deadly outbreak at a long-term care home in Barrie, , that has killed 46 people and infected more than 200.
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