The City of Kawartha Lakes’ Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), which was invoked at the outset of the coronavirus emergency, advised Mayor Andy Letham last week to keep the municipality’s state emergency in place for now.
The state of emergency declaration due to the pandemic was to expire on June 2. Earlier this week, the province extended its state of emergency to June 30. “One of the big concerns is not that something might happen but the message and confusion if we released the local state of emergency while the province still had one in place,” Letham said. “Would that confuse people and would some think the pandemic was over and that it’s back to business as usual?