As COVID-19 continues to spread, the City of Calgary is restricting access to its city hall complex in an effort to minimize the amount of people gathering in a single space and encourage social distancing.
Starting Monday, only citizens that require business services and City of Calgary employees will be allowed inside. “At a time when we are asking Calgarians to keep their distance from one another, it stands to reason that we would not be creating scenarios in which people may congregate,” Calgary’s emergency management agency chief Tom Sampson said in a press release.
The release added that city officials will engage with affected organizations and businesses to “address issues that this closure may have on vulnerable citizens who are