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“It’s just alarming because people are coming in sick,” one employee said, asking not to be identified due to fear of repercussions from their employer. The employee said customers come in throughout the day for COVID-19 PCR tests and rapid antigen tests, as well as related medications.
It said the dividers were a temporary solution, implemented at the peak of the pandemic, to provide a barrier when social distancing could not be maintained. The moves come as public health officials and infectious diseases experts warn of a potential seventh wave of the pandemic, driven by subvariants of the Omicron strain. Last week, Quebec’s public health director and Ontario’s top doctor both declared the seventh wave had arrived in their provinces.Article content
Those using postal services by Canada Post Corporation can also expect to be greeted by maskless employees and fellow customers. And while the Canadian postal operator continues to use floor markers and plastic barriers to encourage physical distancing at all of its corporate post offices, these are optional for postal outlets in a host business.
The shipping service said it has “not instructed our network as a whole” to remove safety barriers or plexiglass shields it provided all locations in Canada.
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