Governments Looking at Longer Term Measures to Slow COVID-19 Spread

Governments Looking at Longer Term Measures to Slow COVID-19 Spread
A health-care worker makes his way into the Emergency Department of the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver on March 30, 2020. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
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Governments across Canada showed signs of settling in for longer periods of physical distancing on Tuesday as they stepped up efforts to protect the country’s most vulnerable residents from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As at least two provinces extended plans to keep schools closed in a bid to slow the spread of the virus, federal officials expressed concern about the effects the disease is having on groups ranging from health-care workers to prison inmates.