Canadian Institute for Health Information. ‘We are not superhuman’: Health-care workers plead for more mental health support In Canada, between mid-January 2020 until nearly the end of July, there were just over 21,000 cases reported among healthcare workers in the country.
Between July 23, 2020, and Jan. 15, 2021, that number increased to nearly 66,000 healthcare workers.CIHI says that of the infections, the numbers don’t show whether the virus was contracted at a hospital or healthcare facility or not.Since the beginning of the pandemic, 24 health care workers have died from COVID-19 — including 12 in the last six months in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta.According to a questionnaire by Statistics Canada, 81 per cent of Canadian.