COVID-19: Trudeau says 'normal Christmas out of question', urges people to limit contacts

As Toronto, Peel Region prepare to enter into a lockdown due to an uncontrollable second wave infection surge, Canian PM Justin Trudeau appealed to citizens to stay-at-home despite Christmas season around corner. In a live-streamed dress on vember 20, Canian leer warned, people needed to immediately shrink number of people y meet, halt nessential movement, and work from home just as he will as coronavirus cases across Cana were “spiking massively.”  Citing overwhelming numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases that have strained healthcare systems to brink of collapse, Trudeau said, “ a rmal Christmas" in 2020 was “quite frankly right out of question.”

Chief Public Health Officer of Cana, resa Tam, earlier at a press briefing reported that in past 24 hours, Cana detected a record-breaking figure of 60,000 cases of vel infection. States of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta were witnessing an alarmingly high rate of transmission, exceeding far more than figures in  March and April. Meanwhile Ontario Premier Doug Ford hostile issued new home confinement orders in hotspot regions that prohibited indoor garings, with exemption to schools, grocery stores, and pharmacies. “It's t where we want to be, it’s a difficult news,” he said at a press conference. 

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Situation 'extremely serious'

“We're really at risk of seeing case los go up and hospitals get overwhelmed," Trudeau said, concerned. “But I am t looking to bring in a federal hammer to try and do things,” he ded, clarifying reports of Ottawa invoking emergency for nationwide lockdown once again. Ontario Premier Doug Ford in a more straightforward statement said, “ situation is extremely serious and furr action is required to avoid worst-case scenario,” as he anunced lockdown effective vember 23 which will last for almost a month.

premier warned that despite festivities, considering grave health crisis, anyone caught flouting lockdown will be imposed with CAN$750 (€483) penalty. He limited funeral and wedding garings to a maximum of 10 people. "We can't risk overwhelming our hospitals,"  Ford said, as Ontario recorded 100,000 confirmed cases as of vember 20. 

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