Ottawa Mayor Vows to End Ban on Window Visits for Retirement Homes

Ottawa Mayor Vows to End Ban on Window Visits for Retirement Homes
A health care worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) works with a resident on a balcony at the Laurier Manor in Ottawa, a long term care facility experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19, on Sunday, April 26, 2020. Ottawa's Mayor Jim Watson says he's ordered the people who run the city's nursing homes to find a way to let family members visit residents through windows again. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says he’s ordered the people who run the city’s nursing homes to find a way to let family members visit residents through windows again.

The four municipal homes’ administrators told families to stop coming to their grounds in letters sent out this week, saying there had been incidents of outdoor visitors not observing distancing rules meant to protect residents from COVID-19.