Stephan Petar has a first date tonight with someone he met on the dating app Hinge — but it won’t be a typical first date. Instead, the Toronto resident and his date will have a cocktail over video chat because they are both practising social distancing amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. “Just because you can’t meet up at a bar or movie… it doesn’t mean romance is dead,” Petar, 30, said. “There are things you can do to keep the normalcy in life and keep a date going.” Meeting new people and dating during the COVID-19 outbreak can be complicated, said Toronto-based relationship expert Jess O’Reilly.
Health experts are encouraging social distancing, which includes maintaining a distance of roughly six feet from others. “If we’ve been told