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Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford says the quarantine formula is “broken” because federal fitness personnel don’t rate other people who forget self-isolation orders for COVID-19.
Since the end of March, a federal emergency order has required that at most people arriving from Canada outdoors be ingested for 14 days, even if they show no symptoms. While more than 2. 5 million border crossings have been registered since then, only a fraction of ferries are quarantined, while the rest are exempt as essential personnel, such as truckers, frontline fitness personnel or flight attendants.
If you violate a quarantine order, federal quarantine officers can impose fees of up to six months on criminal offenses and fines of $750,000, while police can factor fines of up to $1,000.
Between 25 March and 3 September, police were asked to verify the prestige of another 87,338 quarantined persons. Data provided through the Canadian Public Health Agency involves 0 arrests for non-compliance with a quarantine order, a subpoena to appear in court, and 42 cop entries.
However, Ford says Ontario’s police checks have exposed 622 quarantine violations and are due to a lack of federal charges.
“The formula is broken, ” he said Wednesday. I want the federal government in passing to make an amendment or replace it. Why does our police pass and check if other people are quarantined if they are not passing by to serve a position?”
Federal knowledge shows that the RCMP issued 27 price tickets, Ontario Provincial Police issued 14 price tickets, Sarnia police issued a price ticket to one person, and the Barrie Police Service issued a three-way price ticket.
In 35 cases, the fine was up to $1,000, while five $500 fines and two $275 fines were imposed.
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford announced on Thursday a $ 14. 75 million investment to access addiction and intellectual conditioning facilities through expanded face-to-face and online support, as well as culturally appropriate facilities for towns aborigines.
“From downtown Toronto to rural and remote communities in far north Ontario, the effect of COVID-19 continues to be felt throughout the province, i. e. among others with intellectual fitness and addiction issues,” said Michael Tibollo, Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addiction, said in a provincial press release.
“If you would like to contact someone at any time, please contact us,” Ford said at a news convention in Sudbury. The Ontario government maintains a list of facilities for addictions and intellectual fitness on its website.
The province also announced a $2. 9 million investment in 8 COVID-19 study assignments in Ontario, adding an assignment to expand “strong diagnostic rules for the interpretation of chest images to evaluate the effectiveness of this in diagnosing and monitoring PATIENTS with COVID-19”. through a scholar at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
During the press conference, Ford asked about Halloween and whether special effects would be allowed this year. While he noted that there is still a long way to go by October 31 and said ‘let’s play in the ear and see what happens next month’, he also said, ‘we have to be so, so careful Array . . . we have to take care of young people is a priority.
“It just makes me nervous, the kids go door to door. I wouldn’t. It would be a shame, but we’ll check it out and let you know through our public fitness team. “
In Ontario, another 170 people tested positive for COVID-19, and 12 were added in Ottawa, the province announced Thursday.
55 new cases were reported in Toronto, 28 in York and 22 in Peel. Of the province’s 34 fitness units, 14 signed in any new case on the last day, while 28 reported five or less.
There have been a total of 43,855 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The province reported that 142 cases had been resolved in the last 24 hours and that the overall rate of settlement had remained at 90%.
Another user died in Ontario after contracting COVID-19, bringing the number of lives killed by the disease across the province to 2,814 since the onset of the pandemic.
On Thursday, 54 other people were hospitalized for the disease, 14 of them in intensive care and nine in fans.
Local
Ottawa Public Health reported 12 new cases on Thursday, 17 new cases on Wednesday and 37 on Tuesday.
This raises the total number of in the Capital Region to 3163. There are 226 activeArray
There were no new deaths, another 12 people are still hospitalized, adding one in the ICU.
An outbreak was reported on Andrew Fleck’s Children’s Services site, where a staff member diagnosed the virus.
Three institutions were removed from the outbreak list: Madonna Care, Rockcliffe Retirement and Dovercourt Recreational. There are 15 active outbreaks in the gyms.
Bus service for Ottawa’s Catholic and English-speaking public councils will be replaced on Monday due to a “serious” shortage of drivers, says the consortium that manages transportation for both councils.
“Some will be cancelled or redesigned,” the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) said, adding a warning: “It is very likely that many parents will have to find some other means of transportation to take their children to school for the next few weeks until they stabilize. »
On Friday, OSTA asked parents to check their parenting portal to see the changes, adding a list of routes and those involved.
In Kongston, large crowds and parties provoked complaints from local citizens and official calls for greater cooperation to curb COVID-19.
Kingston police and city officials said they had to close a popular pier and beach due to overpopulation and the penalty factor as thousands of academics returned to the city this month. Local citizens said they had also taken to the streets to break the festivities in recent days.
quebec
On Saturday, Quebec will begin imposing fines on others who do not wear masks in enclosed public spaces, Prime Minister Francois Legault said Thursday morning.
Although the move is for the entire province, Legault said police will pay special attention to Ottawa and 3 regions of Quebec that have been declared COVID-19 “hot spots. “
Fines will be announced on Friday. So far, the province has imposed fines on companies where other people have been discovered without masks.
In a television interview Thursday, Quebec Public Safety Minister Geneviève Guilbault said the province is contemplating fines of between $ 400 and $ 6,000 for Quebecers who violate regulations on masks in public places such as shops.
Legault said the minority of Quebecers who do not comply with public fitness rules endanger the lives of other vulnerable people and threaten the physical fitness care system.
“There’s a trend we don’t like, we can’t settle for some other irresponsible people putting our whole society at risk,” Legault said.
The prime minister said there is no plan to close the bars, but said there will soon be news about the fate of karaoke activities, which have caused at least one epidemic.
Quebec recorded 188 new COVID-19s, bringing the total to 64,244.
Two new s have been reported. The toll is now 5773.
At the moment, the number of hospitalizations increased, and six others were hospitalized for a total of 119.
Of those hospitalized, 12 are in intensive care, two less than yesterday.
– With Canadian press and postmedia archives
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