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Ottawa’s Board of Health will push the province to relax its emergency measures to allow community gardens and allotment plots to open this spring during the COVID-19 pandemic and is also looking to develop an app to allow the tracking of infectious people.
The motions were passed Monday night by members of Ottawa’s Board of Health who also voted to explore ways to source large volumes of non-medical masks that Dr. Vera Etches, the medical officer of health, said play an important role in controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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In her lengthy briefing to the board, Etches hinted that some of the most restrictive measures could be eased. But she warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over with the overwhelming majority of Ottawa’s population still at risk.
“The question on everyone’s minds is, how much longer will this current situation continue?” Etches said.
“It must be clear that the current epidemic here in Ottawa still has lots of room to grow if current measures aren’t continued … We don’t really know how many people in Ottawa are infected. There are estimates that somewhere around one per cent of the population have been infected. That leaves 99 per cent of our population not yet immune to COVID-19.
