A trio of medical officers of health are calling for mask mandates to be reinstated province-wide ,at least for now.
Dr. Shanker Nesathurai, the acting medical officer of health in Windsor-Essex sent a joint letter along with his colleagues in Peterborough and Niagara Region to Ontario’s chief medical officer, asking that he require masking in workplaces, schools, college and universities, and essential service settings such as grocery stores.
The three say hospitalizations are rising and while they had hoped to get through the 6th wave without much suffering or long-term disruption, the situation is not playing out as they had hoped.
However, they say any mask mandates need to come from the provincial level, not locally.