TORONTO – Ontario’s Health Minister may consider applying the emergency brake in Thunder Bay and moving the district back into lock-down.
Christine Elliott on Tuesday said the province is looking into a recent rise in cases, which leaves the city and district with a record-high 273 active cases, 216 of which have been recorded in the past seven days.
“That’s being reviewed very carefully and of course the information will come in this evening with respect to the actual data,” Elliott said at a news conference in Toronto.
“That will be something that Dr. David Williams and his team will then be reviewing and will be making recommendations to us in cabinet, preliminary recommendations, that will be reviewed following the next block of data that comes in on Thursday and then a determination is made as to whether there should be a change, whether the emergency brake should be applied or whether Thunder Bay should move into a different category,” Elliott said.
A day earlier, medical officer of health Dr. Janet DeMille of the Thunder Bay District Health Unit said she’s concerned about the growing number of cases and hinted it might be time to consider moving the district from Red-Control to Grey-Lockdown under the Ontario COVID-19 framework.
