{"id":4365,"date":"2024-01-23T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2024-01-25T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:00:55","slug":"quebec-judge-oks-class-action-suit-over-covid-19-outbreaks-in-long-term-care-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebec-judge-oks-class-action-suit-over-covid-19-outbreaks-in-long-term-care-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec judge OK\u2019s class-action suit over COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against the Quebec government on behalf of all residents of public long-term care homes that experienced major COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic\u2019s first year.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit in Superior Court alleges that the province\u2019s response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the class action include anyone living in a public long-term care centre that experienced a COVID-19 outbreak that infected at least 25 per cent of residents between March&nbsp;13, 2020 and March&nbsp;20, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against the Quebec government on behalf of all residents of public long-term care homes that experienced major COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic\u2019s first year.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit in Superior Court alleges that the province\u2019s response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the class action include anyone living in a public long-term care centre that experienced a COVID-19 outbreak that infected at least 25 per cent of residents between March&nbsp;13, 2020 and March&nbsp;20, 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebec-judge-oks-class-action-suit-over-covid-19-outbreaks-in-long-term-care-homes\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quebec judge OK\u2019s class-action suit over COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,370,82,18,290,70,14,186],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-class-action-lawsuit","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-long-term-care-homes","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-seniors","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}