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NEW: An area in the northeast corner of Brampton has a “shocking” 19 per cent COVID-19 test positivity rate — a rate double that of the U.S. thestar.com/news/gta/2020/…

The area is leading a list of 30 GTA neighbourhoods that are seeing alarming numbers of people testing positive for the virus: one in five people test positive for COVID-19, the data shows.
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The ICES data shows that over the past month, the test positivity rate is higher in the lowest-income neighbourhoods compared to the highest-income neighbourhoods — and is increasing more in the lower-income neighbourhoods.

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This part of Brampton is densely populated with essential workers, census data shows. One community of about 2,360 residents — an immigrant-heavy area near Queen Street East and Highway 50.
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This area also has Peel’s highest proportion of large households, with 49 per cent of homes occupied by five or more people, the report shows. thestar.com/news/gta/2020/…

“Those are racialized neighbourhoods where there’s poverty, where there’s overcrowding, where there are essential workers who are very low paid and can’t afford to stay home,” said Colin Furness, an infection-control epidemiologist at @UofT
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