Resident of Toronto's largest homeless shelter dies with COVID-19 as 50 shelters battle outbreaks

A resident of this homeless shelter tested positive for COVID-19 and died recently, the city has confirmed. Seaton House is Toronto’s largest shelter. (Robert Krbavac/CBC – image credit)A resident of Seaton House has died after testing positive for COVID-19 as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to make its way through emergency shelters in Toronto.The city confirmed the death at Seaton House, the city’s largest shelter, in an email on the weekend. The shelter currently has 36 active cases of COVID-19. No details about the person who died were provided.The death comes as 50 shelters are grappling with COVID-19 outbreaks, according to the city’s dashboard of pandemic data, which was last updated on Friday morning. There are 401 active cases among unhoused people staying at shelters.”The City and Toronto Public Health offer our condolences as we confirm the recent death of a resident staying at Seaton House in Toronto,” the city said in the email.”We can’t provide further details regarding this individual in order to protect their personal health information under the provincial Personal Health Information Protection Act and out of respect for the privacy of the individual and their family.”According to city data updated recently, 132 shelter residents died…
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