Associate chief medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe defended the government’s decision to introduce a lockdown in Toronto and Peel Region as necessary, saying Ontario “cannot let the numbers just keep going up without doing what needs to be done. Yaffe said the government has avoided even more aggressive measures such as a curfew.
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