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Ontario health minister defends province's approach amid worsening measles outbreak

Published May 7, 2025 at 7:26pm

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Ontario health minister defends province's approach amid worsening measles outbreak

Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, is sworn in to cabinet during a ceremony in Toronto on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Health Minister Sylvia Jones defended on Wednesday the province's approach to the measles outbreak as new infections increase sharply and criticism mounts.

The latest public health data released last week shows 223 new infections across Ontario in the previous week.

That brings the total number of people in the province who have fallen ill from the virus to 1,243 since October. That includes 84 people who have been hospitalized, 63 of them children.

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