Medical experts are suggesting Toronto must rethink how it utilises public space as Ontario slowly reopens amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of people gathered at the city’s Trinity Bellwoods Park over the weekend, appearing to ignore physical-distancing rules and clustering in large groups. “Make the park spaces larger,” says Dr.
Anna Banerji, an infectious disease specialist and associate professor of pediatrics and public health at the University of Toronto.
Banerji says we need to shift our focus and begin sheltering the most vulnerable people while encouraging those who are able to stay home and practise physical distancing where possible. “If we can build the herd immunity amongst us while we keep the people who are