Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday he was encouraged by data out of British Columbia showing the novel coronavirus pandemic may be starting to level off in that province, but urged Canadians to continue social distancing measures.
B.C. health officials released new modelling data Friday that showed the transmission rate in the province had dropped by double digits as people were ordered to stay at home while most businesses shuttered.
Trudeau called the data “promising,” but added now was not the time to get complacent and start ignoring the public health orders that led to that decrease. “People need to know that the decline in the rate of transmission happened because two weeks ago, people started heeding these instructions and