"Schools and daycares currently are slated to be closed until May 4.
“As soon as we’ll reach the peak and start to decrease the number of cases and the number of people in our hospitals, we’ll be able to re-launch the economy,” Legault said, adding that children whose parents go back to work will need somewhere to go.
“I don’t want to take any risk that is too high, but, at the same time, we need eventually to restart the economy and give hope to the population.”
Dr. Horacio Arruda, the province’s director of public health, cited the fact that children are less at risk for coronavirus complications.
But he added kids must steer clear of their grandparents.
“It’s why we want to give this separation between the ones that are at risk and the ones who are not at risk,” Arruda said.
...Authorities have said the vast majority of people who’ve died due to COVID-19 in the province — 99 per cent of deaths — are 70 and older.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/cana...ine/wcm/f7c350d9-57b3-468f-928a-ad361cf7e90f/
“As soon as we’ll reach the peak and start to decrease the number of cases and the number of people in our hospitals, we’ll be able to re-launch the economy,” Legault said, adding that children whose parents go back to work will need somewhere to go.
“I don’t want to take any risk that is too high, but, at the same time, we need eventually to restart the economy and give hope to the population.”
Dr. Horacio Arruda, the province’s director of public health, cited the fact that children are less at risk for coronavirus complications.
But he added kids must steer clear of their grandparents.
“It’s why we want to give this separation between the ones that are at risk and the ones who are not at risk,” Arruda said.
...Authorities have said the vast majority of people who’ve died due to COVID-19 in the province — 99 per cent of deaths — are 70 and older.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/cana...ine/wcm/f7c350d9-57b3-468f-928a-ad361cf7e90f/
