Southeastern Ontario public health officials urge caution over Easter weekend
Global News
Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in Kingston and other areas in southeastern Ontario, public health officials in the area are urging caution heading into the long weekend.
High-ranking hospital and public health officials across southeastern Ontario made a public plea Wednesday in advance of the long weekend.
They are urging residents to do more to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Just days after the province’s chief medical officer declared the sixth wave of the pandemic, but ruled out reinstating a mask mandate, local health officials are out with some advice of their own just before the Easter long weekend.
They are highly recommending people mask up.
Wearing a three layer mask in all public indoor spaces is just one of over half a dozen calls to action in a new joint statement issued by medical officers and hospital chiefs of staff in the southeast region.
Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick of Kingston Health Sciences Centre said that the local effect is prevalent.
“The virus is persisting in our community at higher levels than we had anticipated and that’s meant a significant number of admissions to hospital,” he said.
The health care leaders are also calling on people to get vaccinated, stay home when sick and isolate for five days after a positive COVID-19 test or symptoms develop.
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