Infectious disease specialist Dr. Abdu Sharkawy said an overcrowded park in Toronto on Saturday was an ‘expression of disrespect’ to health-care workers.
TORONTO -- An infectious disease specialist says scenes of people overcrowding a Toronto park on Saturday was an “expression of disrespect” to health-care workers and could spark a surge in new COVID-19 cases.
It’s estimated that 10,000 people packed into the park on Saturday. Police were expected to be at the park on Sunday to prevent large crowds from gathering.As part of the city’s reopening plan, more than 850 parks and outdoor amenities were open to the public this week even though the province’s case numbers continued to spike.
“I think a lot of people are under the false impression that the flattening of the curve is the end of our job here and it’s nowhere near, it’s only halfway through this marathon,” he said. “Initially there was a small surge in the number of cases, but that has sort of persisted over the past week, which has suggested that there was probably something that happened a couple of weeks back and it dates back to, not surprisingly, the Mother’s Day long weekend,” he said.
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