A guy whose Saskatoon business was reported Saturday as an imagined exhibition site to COVID-19 said provincial fitness officials did not touch it on Monday afternoon, more than a week after the informed exposure date.
“You’d think that if you had simply published an article about it on Saturday night, you might have contacted us at the same time, or at least now,” said Aaron Paetsch, owner of Divas Nightclub.
On Saturday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) issued a public fitness notice asking all customers who had visited Divas late on August 1 or 2 to self-control for symptoms of the virus.
“When an individual tests positive for COVID-19, a tactile investigation is conducted without delay in which public fitness is directed at who might be connected to that user with COVID-19 and provides data on detection and self-isolation,” according to the authority’s aptitude.
“If fitness officers aren’t sure they’ve met all known close contacts, they can take more steps to inform the network of imaginable places where other people visited with COVID-19 while they were infectious.
Paetsch said his company had a scanning formula on the front that fitness officials may be looking for contacts.
“I have all this data in a position to pass it to SHA if I get touched or returned calls,” Paetsch said.
CBC News contacted the fitness government for feedback.
Customer Sydney Sawatsky said that recently in Divas she dressed in a mask and that the company had made a “great effort” to inspire physical distance.
“In fact, I sat in a position marked with an ‘X’ and the only doorman working upstairs came and asked me to move just because the other aspect of that stool wasn’t marked with the ‘X’,” Sawatsky said.
He said the bar wore masks, but not many customers.
“The general public that was going there was not two meters away,” Sawatsky said. “It wasn’t necessarily the bar’s fault. I think other people think the pandemic has rarely arrived yet, when it is.”
Sawatsky said he’d be back at the club, still for two weeks.
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