The province’s top public health official is appealing to Ontarians to follow public safety guidelines this upcoming long weekend.
Dr. David Williams said yesterday that he’s optimistic about the recent decline in new COVID-19 case counts, but he’s a bit concerned that some of that progress could be undone this holiday weekend.
Williams said in the past long weekends have not been the greatest time for consistency around maintaining public health measures and we don’t need another surge back up again.
Williams said Ontario is now making “steady progress” as it comes down from the third wave of the pandemic, which peaked about a month ago.
He said that the recent decline in COVID-19 cases could eventually allow Ontario to return to some level of “normalcy” later this summer and into the fall, but only if residents continue to follow public safety guidelines, especially this coming weekend.
Williams said the worst thing would be creating a new surge of COVID cases that would drive the numbers back up again.