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Ontario science advisers urge six-week stay-home order as province pleads for help
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By Colin Perkel and Holly McKenzie-Sutter, The Canadian Press on April 16, 2021.
People line up in the rain for a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up clinic at the Masjid Darus Salaam in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood in Toronto on Sunday, April 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
TORONTO – Ontario’s science advisers called for a six-week stay-at-home order and aggressive vaccinations as they warned Friday that the province’s COVID-19 infections could approach 20,000 per day if strong restrictions aren’t imposed.
The dire predictions came as the government pleaded with other provinces to send in nurses and health workers while its hospital system buckled under surging cases.
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Ontario’s science advisers called for a six-week stay-at-home order and aggressive vaccinations as they warned Friday that the province’s COVID-19 infections could approach 20,000 per day if strong restrictions aren’t imposed.
The dire predictions came as the government pleaded with other provinces to send in nurses and health workers while its hospital system buckled under surging cases.
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“Our progress is both frustrating and frightening,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s science advisory panel, said in presenting the latest projections.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has extended the stay-at-home order by two weeks and has imposed further restrictions on outdoor activities and retail in the hopes of flattening of the COVID-19 surge in the province.
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The announcement follows COVID-19 modelling released by the province science advisors Friday, which showed that the province could approach up 20,000 causes a day if strong measures aren’t imposed.