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Photos taken January 28th, 2021:

Looking East along Front from the Puente du Luz Bridge:

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Looking North-Easterly from the Linear Park:

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Looking (roughly) north, straight-across the rail yard, from the Linear Park:

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Ministry of Labour reveals 68 workers have contracted COVID-19 at The Well construction site in Toronto

An investigation is ongoing and rapid testing has been deployed at the massive site near Front St. and Spadina Ave.
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More than 15 workers on Ontario’s largest construction site tested positive for COVID-19 after the holidays.

The companies in charge of The Well construction site in downtown Toronto say they took immediate action to prevent spread of the virus, and that widespread testing of workers has since resulted in no new positive cases. EllisDon Corp., the company overseeing construction of one building at the site, said 15 workers on its site tested positive, while construction manager for the other buildings Deltera would not give specific numbers, but said it “experienced positive cases.”

The Well is one of the largest construction sites in Ontario, a mixed-use development on almost eight acres that will see condominiums, apartments, offices and retail space spread among seven buildings. It’s a joint project by multiple developers.

EllisDon’s corporate director of marketing and communications Dustin Luchka said in an email that 15 workers from several subtrade companies tested positive across EllisDon’s portion of The Well site since Jan. 4. None were EllisDon employees, he said, and all workers who came into close contact with the positive cases were required to self-isolate.

EllisDon is undertaking sitewide testing for all employees and contractors, added Luchka. Around 400 people were tested on Tuesday, and another 200 on Thursday, all with negative results, he said.

“We take seriously the health and safety of all workers on site and have implemented COVID-19 specific measures to protect workers at our work sites. Those include, health screening measures prior to site access, temperature scans, regular cleaning on projects, physical distancing requirements, enhanced hygiene measures, restrictions on the number of workers in hoists, limiting the number of individuals in gatherings, and staggering breaks and schedules.”

Deltera, the construction arm of development company Tridel, which is in charge of the other buildings at The Well, confirmed it saw multiple cases — though it wouldn’t say how many — in an emailed statement that outlined similar precautionary measures to those undertaken by EllisDon.

“While our training and employee communications all reinforce Public Health recommendations of limiting celebrations of multiple households, like many workplaces, we have experienced positive cases following the holidays,” the statement reads.

Deltera notified public health authorities in response to the positive cases, initiated contact tracing and isolation of those exposed, and underwent workplace sanitation, according to the statement. The company also provided testing for all workers on site “out of an abundance of caution,” the statement reads, and as of a routine inspection Jan. 22, they were “found to be in full compliance and the inspection produced no new orders related to the positive cases.”

In an email, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Labour confirmed it has received occupational illness reports for The Well, but said that data on the cases “is unavailable at this time due to pending updates to our database.”

“Local public health authorities track all cases of COVID-19 to determine whether they are isolated or related,” they wrote.

When asked about COVID-19 cases at The Well, a Toronto Public Health spokesperson said the agency “reports only on COVID-19 workplace outbreaks by business name when that business poses a significant public health risk.”

Under the current provincial stay-at-home order, the majority of construction projects have been deemed essential and allowed to continue, with some exceptions.

As of Jan. 26, the city’s publicly available data on active outbreaks reported 13 active outbreaks in the workplace category covering offices, warehousing, shipping and distribution, construction and manufacturing.
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