coronavirus has changed what that means.Restaurants have slowly started to reopen in British Columbia, while certain public health units in Ontario will be allowed to reopen patios only on Friday.
Meanwhile, cities like Moncton, N.B. and Kelowna, B.C. have moved to close some streets to allow for the expansion of outdoor patios and sidewalk terraces.While the details about how to keep patio patrons safe are foggy, there is some good news: the risk of the virus spreading on an outdoor patio is relatively low.“One of the safest ways to (socialize) is by getting outside where the risk of transmission is quite low,” Kate Mulligan, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, previously told Global.