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Ontario must shrink its daily increase in new COVID-19 cases by more than half — to 200 or fewer — before the economy can begin reopening, warns the chief medical officer of health.
The target was revealed Tuesday by Dr. David Williams after Premier Doug Ford promised a framework for loosening restrictions will be released within days, noting sombrely that “people will still be dying” even as measures ease.
With the province now reporting about 500 more Ontarians testing positive every day, people will have to stick with strict stay-at-home and physical distancing measures into May, Williams said.
“We have to see some real ongoing change. Ontarians have done a great job of flattening the curve, of bending the curve, but now we’d like to actually see it coming down,” he told reporters.
“I think we’d have to see ourselves back down at least in that 200 (area) if not lower.”
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Some of the pressure for reopening stems from the situation in British Columbia, which Ford said is “about three weeks ahead of us” in the pandemic.
“They ended up getting the spike much earlier than we did,” said the premier, mindful people in Ontario are seeing news coverage of some B.C. golf courses, which were not ordered closed by health officials, opening to the public for the season.
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The target was revealed Tuesday by Dr. David Williams after Premier Doug Ford promised a framework for loosening restrictions will be released within days, noting sombrely that “people will still be dying” even as measures ease.
With the province now reporting about 500 more Ontarians testing positive every day, people will have to stick with strict stay-at-home and physical distancing measures into May, Williams said.
“We have to see some real ongoing change. Ontarians have done a great job of flattening the curve, of bending the curve, but now we’d like to actually see it coming down,” he told reporters.
“I think we’d have to see ourselves back down at least in that 200 (area) if not lower.”
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Some of the pressure for reopening stems from the situation in British Columbia, which Ford said is “about three weeks ahead of us” in the pandemic.
“They ended up getting the spike much earlier than we did,” said the premier, mindful people in Ontario are seeing news coverage of some B.C. golf courses, which were not ordered closed by health officials, opening to the public for the season.
Ontario must halve the number of new COVID-19 cases to 200 or fewer a day before reopening the economy, top doctor says
Ontario must shrink its daily increase in new COVID-19 cases by more than half — to 200 or fewer — before the economy can begin reopening, warns the chief medical officer of health.
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