‘It’s Beyond Appalling:’ LTC Residents Beg for Release From COVID-19 Confinement

‘It’s Beyond Appalling:’ LTC Residents Beg for Release From COVID-19 Confinement
People protest outside the Tendercare Living Centre long-term-care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scarborough, Ont., on December 29, 2020. Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press
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TORONTO—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.