“Probably the biggest thing and the biggest message we are trying to get people to understand is that we are not in a crisis here. People need to stay calm,” CEO Gary Sims said Thursday afternoon. “The truth is that even across the world, the vast majority of people go through this illness and they have very, very mild symptoms.”
Sims said locally they have had probably 10 teams of people working to ensure they are ready to respond. Officials have worked with medical staff to go through different scenarios representing different stages of the outbreak.
Public health spokesperson Drew Ferguson said Thursday, “I think people are ramping up their anxiety a little too much. COVID doesn’t have legs, it doesn’t have wings, it doesn’t walk and it doesn’t fly,” he said, adding the way to contract coronavirus is through close contact with someone who has it.
It is transferred to someone else, either through a cough or a sneeze, or touching something an infected person has touched and then touching ones eyes, nose and mouth so it can enter the respiratory system.
“The solution isn’t in testing, it isn’t in hospitals, it isn’t in nursing and doctors with the provincial or federal government, but it is with every one of us practising good basic hygiene,” said Ferguson.
Everyone must use their own judgement and good sense at this time.
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