Immediacy in new instances of COVID-19 may temporarily spiral out of control, public fitness officials said on Friday, as some provinces continued to impose new, tougher measures to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
Canada’s leading director of public fitness, Dr. Theresa Tam said it was too early to claim a momentary wave of pandemics in the country, however, the daily number of cases is expanding at an alarming rate.
“This increases the likelihood that we will lose the ability to keep COVID-19 instances at manageable levels,” he said. “The time has come for Canadians to re-indoble their efforts with non-public precautions that will delay the spread of the virus. “
Provinces also have a role to play, Tam noted, preferably by adopting an approach aimed at preventing outbreaks at the regional level.
In the past, Quebec announced Friday that it would send police officers to 1,000 bars across the province over the weekend, with a specific in 8 regions that have noticed a sharp increase in cases and may face other restrictions if the trend is not reversed. .
“The purpose of this operation is for our regions to return to green and remain green for those who already are,” said Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault in Quebec City, in reference to the framework for the reopening of the province by color code.
The province, which has been hardest hit by the coronavirus, announced 297 new ones on Friday.
Ontario, meanwhile, has reported 401 new cases, an increase that has not been noticed since June, a day after extending fines for those holding giant social gatherings to $10,000 and reducing the maximum duration of meetings in 3 sensitive regions.
In Toronto, Ottawa and the Peel region, only 10 other people will be allowed to gather indoors, compared to the existing limit of 25, while the number of meetings will increase from one hundred to 25.
On Friday, Ford said in Ottawa that the move would soon drag on to more regions, as some mayors have asked for.
Ontario and Quebec have noted that personal meetings and house parties are guilty of the accumulation of cases, and public aptitude officials have suggested that others be aware of their decisions.
“All Canadians know what to do, I hope now, in terms of what they can do themselves,” said Dr Howard Njoo, the country’s Deputy Director of Public Health.
“So it’s just a matter of looking in the mirror and seeing what we can do or do in our daily lives, who we interact with, how we carry out our daily activities and I think that’s how we’re going to overcome this virus. “
The increase in the number of cases is limited to the two provinces most affected by the virus.
British Columbia, for example, reported 165 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a daily all-time record for the province where the number of cases began to increase in August despite a flattened curve in the past.
As of Friday afternoon, Canada reported 141,625 cases shown.
Among them is the leader of Bloc Québécois, Yves-Fran’ois Blanchet, who announced that he would isolate himself after positive for COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the president of the Canadian Public Health Agency resigned Friday, saying that running the first component of the pandemic had exhausted it.
Tina Namiesniowski, who has held office since May 2019, said it was time for someone else to lead the country through the wave of viruses.
“You want someone who has the power and stamina to take the company and our reaction to the next level,” Namiesniowski wrote in a letter to staff. “And, while I probably wouldn’t have completed everything I would have liked to do, I sincerely hope that the basis of the replacement I’ve defended through our work. . . serve as a roadmap to move forward.
This Canadian Press report was first published on September 18, 2020.