Ontario is reporting 778 people hospitalized with COVID-19 Wednesday as health experts are cautioning people to keep wearing masks as the province sees a rise in hospital occupancy in the wake of public health measures being lifted.
Dr. Peter Jüni, head of Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table, says the province is seeing the effect of easing of public health measures in the past few weeks — including the lifting of mask mandates in most settings and the end of gathering limits.
“We’re seeing quite the steep increase right now in wastewater predominantly, and it starts to be followed now by an increase in hospital occupancy,” Jüni told
