As coronavirus cases continue to increase across the country, the federal government is “desperately” urging others to dig and stay at home.
In an interview with Mercedes Stephenson of the West Block, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said that a wider economic shutdown like the one that happened in the previous year is not inevitable, but that Canadians will now have to act to curb the spread of the virus in families and communities.
“We are back where we desperately want Canadians to get involved,” he said.
“As other people start to hang out inside, as flu season hits us too, we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to continue to deal with that through the things we all do. Whether it’s washing our hands, drinking social distance, wearing a mask, just stay in position as much as possible.
“The more we can do these things, the less economic consequences there will be. “
Cases are across the country, adding in the two most populous provinces where the immediate accumulation of infections last week led provincial fitness officials to impose some restrictions on meetings, but did not respond to developing calls for a general order to close inland bars. restaurants.
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Ontario reported 732 cases on Friday, a single-day record, while Quebec surpassed 1,000 new cases on the same day, also a record.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country is in a moment of wave and officials like Ottawa’s director of public health, Dr. Vera Etches, warn that the city is reaching a “crisis point”.
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And with many hospitals and screening centers at full capacity or near their full capacity, the threat of Canadian fitness systems being overtaken this fall is expanding even as the provincial government avoids the kind of large-scale blockade that was launched in the spring.
Qualtrough said the purpose of verifying for others to prevent spread at the local level first and for provinces to verify a variety of specific tactics to verify to involve propagation, but sought to see results.
“As governments, we actually try to minimize the economic effect in the future, but it’s actually based on people’s vigilance. We’re not kidding. “
The increasing number of people comes at a time when the number of international deaths has reached more than one million.
In Canada, the cases shown now exceed 162,195, while the deaths amount to 9,404.
Political leaders were not spared either: Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and his wife, Rebecca, or the virus last month, as was Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet.
All three are now recovered, U. S. President Donald Trump is the last political leader to get sick.
Conservative Deputy Director Candice Bergen, infections highlighted the severity of the virus.
“I think this makes it genuine for everyone that this virus is serious. It affects people, no matter who it is, where they live or what their homework is,” he says.
“So we all have to be very serious about how we deal with this and how we ourselves and those we love. “
Qualtrough came up with ideas.
“Wear your mask, wash your hands, social distance,” he says. “This is one thing. “