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Auditor General finds Canada’s public health agency wasn’t ready for pandemic despite warnings

A new report just out finds Ottawa could have been better prepared for COVID-19. 

Canada’s Auditor General Karen Hogan says despite decades of warnings, the Public Health Agency of Canada was not ready for the pandemic.

Hogan said the agency did not plan, nor prepare for a nationwide quarantine of the scale seen in the past year. 

She said the report found that PHAC underestimated the severity of the threat posed at the onset of the pandemic. 

The report also showed the way the Canada Border Services Agency and PHAC handled border restrictions impacted efforts to control the spread of the virus.

Mo Fahim
Mo Fahim
Part of Vista Radio\'s National News Team and Moose\'s News Reporter in Parry Sound. Studied Radio Broadcasting at Algonquin College, and before that dabbled in Medical lab work for a bit.

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