The City of Toronto says it issued dozens of tickets and spoke to hundreds of people regarding violations of public health recommendations in city-owned parks amid the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday of the Easter long weekend.
Municipal Licensing & Standards (MLS) officers issued 48 tickets for the use of closed park amenities and not practising physical distancing.
This accounts for 32 per cent of the total number of tickets issued since the enforcement blitz began on April 3. The city said 286 people were spoken to about the use of park amenities and social distancing, which is an 83 per cent decrease from Friday. “The advice from Toronto’s public health officials has been clear and consistent: to stop the community spread of this