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As Alberta Health Services reported another 71 cases of COVID-19 in the province Monday, Calgary’s mayor said city officials are still looking into the possibility of making mask-use mandatory for transit-users.
The number of new cases hasn’t been this high since May 16, when 72 new cases were reported in Alberta, and Mayor Naheed Nenshi is concerned about the low number of Calgarians wearing masks in public as active cases slowly climbed to 559 Monday. The number of active cases in the Calgary zone is 239, up by 23 from Sunday, and the total number of cases in Alberta now sits at 8,067.
“The level of mask-wearing is way too low. My work colleague said that on a Monday when we thought traffic would be really light, his CTrain car was busier than he’d ever seen and maybe 40 per cent were wearing masks; that’s way too low,” Nenshi said Monday.
“People really need to be wearing masks on public transit, in stores, in places where they can’t guarantee they’ll be staying six feet or two metres apart, and in places where they don’t know the person, so if there is an outbreak you won’t be able to track it. Those are places where you really have to be wearing a mask. You shouldn’t wait for the law to tell you that you have to; you should just do it.”
Source: – Calgary Herald
