Manitobans urged to stay vigilant, safe as provincial COVID-19 restrictions are scaled back – CBC
The end of restrictions and protections does not mean the end of the pandemic: MD
Mar 01, 2022
On the same day Manitoba eliminated the COVID-19 proof of vaccination requirement for public places, a provincial doctors group is pleading with people to remain cautious.
The dangers from COVID-19 are still here, Dr. Kristjan Thompson, president of Doctors Manitoba, said in a news conference on Tuesday.
“COVID is still circulating widely in Manitoba,” he said. “I think we’re concerned that people are getting the wrong message. There is still, absolutely, a need to continue doing things that will reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 to others.”
Thompson, an emergency medicine physician at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, says he has heard from many patients and other people who are under the impression the pandemic is over simply because the public health orders are being lifted.
“But the end of restrictions and protections does not mean the end of the pandemic,” he said, adding “our hospitals are nowhere near back to normal.”
