Canada: Ontario getting COVID-19 pandemic by community transmission
Ottawa/IBNS: Ontario public health officials have been perplexed by the continuing COVID-19 transmission in its communities despite six weeks of workplace closures, physical distancing, and stay-at-home measures, media reports said.
While roughly half of Ontario's new cases of the coronavirus being among residents and staff of long-term care homes, other front-line health workers, the sources of infection of the remaining cases, are not often specified.
During his daily briefing on Tuesday, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said he is looking for answers to questions such as who is getting infected, its demographics, and which locations being affected most.
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Williams said he wants Ontario's public health units to collect more specific information about likely sources of transmission among new cases.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday that it was precisely for this reason that Ontarians should be extra careful about restarting the economy.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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