'The time is absolutely right' for pandemic measures to lift, experts say
CTV
With several Canadian provinces set to lift mask mandates in the next few weeks, health experts say the time is right for easing strict measures.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador have all set dates for the end of provincial mask mandates after national health officials said the peak of Omicron in Canada has passed.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto, said that a province-by-province approach to lifting or reinstating pandemic measures is appropriate as Canada moves forward.
"Everyone's looking at the same data and coming up with different conclusions," Bogoch told CTV's Your Morning on Thursday.
Bogoch said "each province has its own epidemic" and has had to take slightly different protective measures pandemic based on its own epidemiology, its political and public health leadership, and the public buy-in.
