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The Toronto Blue Jays have been cleared to start their summer training camp at Rogers Centre, but Canada's deputy chief public health officer says hosting other teams there during the regular season would be a"totally different ball game."
Dr. Howard Njoo, Canada's deputy chief public health officer, said Friday that plan carries risk, and an exemption for the Blue Jays isn't guaranteed. Training camps were set to begin around the league on Friday, but the Blue Jays are slightly delayed as their players and staff undergo the intake and screening process at their spring training stadium in Dunedin, Fla.
That would mean Toronto would travel to New York, Boston, Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. And teams from those cities would come into Canada on multiple occasions as well. Florida reported a record-high 10,109 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday while Ontario's new case total for the same day was 153.
Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said that modified quarantine model will lower the risk of players or staff spreading COVID-19 in Toronto.
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