Although the local risk of infection is low, the medical officer of health for the Middlesex-London Health Unit states that face masks or coverings will be mandatory in indoor, enclosed public spaces in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The health unit suggests the bylaws include requirements that people wear face masks and that businesses take actions to ensure masks are worn in all indoor public spaces and that a communication campaign will be launched to promote the bylaw and also to highlight the continuing need for physical distancing.
The news conference provided just 10 hours’ notice to the public, a far cry from the two-and-a-half-week notice provided between the announcement of a mandate for the use of face masks on public transit and into other specific scenarios which actually comes into effect days after the instruction.
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