Doug Ford says Ontario needs to ‘learn to live with’ COVID ahead of reopening Monday
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Ford made the comments in an interview that aired Friday on a local Peterborough, Ont., radio station, a day after the province's top doctor made similar remarks.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province needs to “learn to live with” COVID-19.
Ford made the comments in an interview that aired Friday on a local Peterborough, Ont., radio station, a day after the province’s top doctor made similar remarks.
Asked whether Ontario’s reopening plan would work well, Ford said he’s confident it will because virus test positivity has dropped since public health restrictions took effect earlier this month.
Restrictions on businesses like restaurants, gyms and theatres will ease on Monday, allowing such venues to open with capacity limits.
Ford said restrictions brought in this month to blunt a wave of Omicron infections are working.
He noted that his government’s plan involves reopening cautiously, with 50 per cent capacity limits in place at first, and said the province needs to learn to live with the virus to get back to normal.
“There’s no one in this province who wants to open up quicker than I do,” Ford told PTBO Today Radio. “I want to get back to normal. We’ve got to learn to live with this and get things back to normal and we’re going to get there.”
On Thursday, the province’s chief medical officer of health also remarked on the need to strike a balance between living with the virus and reopening cautiously.
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