Ottawa’s medical officer of health will be issuing a class order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act aimed at outdoor recreational spaces that will outline requirements around signage, physical distancing, and maximum capacity limits in common gathering areas, after large crowds were observed at skating rinks, tobogganing hills and skiing trailheads, “raising concern for me that we need to decrease that crowding,” said Dr. Vera Etches. Read More
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COVID-19: Etches announces capacity limits for skating rinks, sledding hills; Ontario again records more than 3,000 cases
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