Toronto Mayor John Tory says the coronavirus pandemic could cost the City between $1.5 and $2.76 billion, depending on the needed duration of public health measures. “This is one of the greatest challenges this city has ever faced and so we will have to rise to that challenge,” Tory told reporters Friday afternoon. “While we are scouring the City government for savings while still maintaining all the essential and critical services that people rely on in the city and we’re providing today through the pandemic, we will need help from the other levels of government.” Tory said a three-month lockdown and a six-month recovery period could cost $1.5 billion in 2020, calling that figure a “best-case scenario.” It was estimated that $938 million