Federal government giving seniors one-time payment up to $500 to help with COVID-19 costs
By Charlie Pinkerton
The National Institute on Ageing (NIA) told the Toronto Star last week that 3,436 residents and six staff members had died from the illness as of last Wednesday, when there were 4,167 deaths from the disease in the country – meaning that 82 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Canada at that time had come in nursing homes.