More COVID measures in Ontario 'don't appear necessary' despite rise in cases: health minister

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Christine Elliott noted that Ontario has a highly vaccinated population now, has increased hospital capacity and has more access to antiviral medications to…

“At this point, it doesn’t appear necessary that we need to take any further precautions,” Christine Elliott said at a hospital funding announcement in Toronto on Thursday.

“If we need to take any further measure we will, but so far it doesn’t appear that we need to do that,” she said.Elliott also indicated the province likely won’t mandate masks widely again, despite recent advice from local medical officers in Ottawa and some other Ontario regions that people continue masking indoors in light of the ongoing risk from the virus.

There were 807 patients in hospital with the virus on Thursday, up from 778 a day earlier. The province reported 3,139 new virus cases, an increase of roughly 11 per cent from Wednesday’s 2,814. “I think the government’s trying to pretend like COVID is over and that we don’t need to do the things that we did in the last five waves,” he said.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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Between Ford's help and others in her cover-ups, Christine Elliott is so fortunate not to have any accountability or criminal actions resulting from her blatant mismanagement of long-term homes for years even when investigated by David Common twice.

Appearances can be deceiving...

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Bet she hasn’t been inside a school recently.

Her law degree does not qualify her to make that judgement call. I will listen to the medical profession who say that the Ford gov't moved way too fast. 6thWave ElectionStrategy

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