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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is requiring all Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs’ (OFSC) trails and trails utilizing Crown Land in the health unit district to close Thursday for the duration of the province’s stay-at-home order.
The trails closure is being done under the medical officer of health’s “ability to increase restrictions within their district,” and will be reassessed when the 28-day stay-at-home order ends.
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“We have been told to stay home and we need to do this,” Dr. Jim Chirico, the medical officer of health, said in a release Monday. “I have received many complaints about people travelling from other districts to use the local snowmobile trails, thus putting our district at risk of COVID-19.