Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and the province’s chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab provided an update on the province’s COVID-19 ongoing response on Thursday.
Moe announced an expansion of the testing criteria throughout the province as more businesses start to reopen, saying this will lead to an increase in overall testing numbers as a result.
Shahab said the broadened criteria will pay careful attention to those who are caregivers to people with compromised immune systems, the homeless and vulnerable populations.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, alongside Minister of Health Christine Elliott and Minister of Education Stephen Lecce announced Wednesday that Ontario would be expanding its list of those eligible for emergency child care.
Lecce said those now eligible would also include grocery store workers, pharmaceutical workers, retirement home staff, Ontario truckers, the Canadian Armed Forces, and those who support those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Ontario reported 347 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the lowest single-day increase in more than three weeks, bringing the provincial total to 15,728 cases.
The Singapore Government is extending more wage support to companies in its Solidarity Budget, offering earlier payouts and increasing support for more workers.
“I expect firms to make use of this (Jobs Support Scheme) to continue paying your workers and refrain from putting workers on no-pay leave during this period, or worse, retrenching them,” DPM Heng Swee Keat said in Parliament on Monday (Apr 6). https://cna.asia/2XaIzSv
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