Ottawa’s top doctor said Monday the city’s public health unit is exploring how it can monitor whether people are complying and coping with instructions to practice social distancing and self-isolation in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. “I think that the feedback we have is that people are taking it seriously and there are exceptions and people are concerned about the exceptions,” Dr.
Vera Etches, the city’s chief medical officer, said in a teleconference. In recent days, health officials at all levels of government in Canada have doubling down on orders to practice social distancing to help contain transmission of the novel coronavirus.