Key takeaways:
- Canadians are urged to conduct individual risk assessments as constraints are raised regularly.
- In several regions, including Ontario, provincial governments rapidly lift COVID-19 limitations and vaccine orders.
Canada to lift covid restrictions:
The improving circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic mean Canadian jurisdictions can now reduce public health constraints. Further, federal officials stated Friday.
During its weekly pandemic press conference, trends of the intense disease are falling in most country regions, the Public Health Agency of Canada said.
Nationally, the rate of patients treated for COVID-19 in clinics has fallen by 15 percent, similar to the previous week.
“We ought to turn our emphasis on relieving societal disruption,” stated Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam.
That news comes as regions across the nation are quickly lifting restraints and vaccine rulings in various settings.
Alberta and Saskatchewan have pushed most aggressively to pitch COVID-19 measures, including needs for masks and vaccine passports in almost all circumstances.
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Ontario followed on March 1 by lifting its vaccine passport system and capacity boundaries in all indoor settings.
Quebec is slated to present similar changes after this month.
While Tam stated that a return to everyday life is cautious given the recession of the Omicron surge, she also urged Canadians to take more personal accountability as they go around life in a society with relatively few restrictions in place.
“Regaining in-person social and economic actions while the pandemic is continuing and the virus is not going away means we must use all that we have learned to do this safely and make it last,” she stated.
The federal government has been gradually lifted constraints and vaccine orders over several regions.
An unvaccinated individual in Alberta, for instance, is now allowed to go to any indoor setting with no capacity limit and no mask need — but that same individual would not be allowed to board an airplane.
