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thestar.com on 2020-03-23 10:00

Hospitals in Ontario’s north are already short-staffed. Now they’re ramping up preparations for the expected COVID-19 onslaught

The new coronavirus has not yet taken hold in most of the province’s remote and rural regions, but doctors know it could soon arrive in force.

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