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Ontario’s top doctor urges mask-wearing, warns mandate could return for COVID-19

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Ontario’s top doctor has warned that COVID-19 cases and the approach of winter could further jeopardize the province’s struggling health-care system, forcing the Ford government to potentially re-implement a mandatory masking policy if the situation worsens.

In an interview with Global News, Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s medical officer of health, urged people to get vaccines, boosters and wear a mask to avoid an "unmanageable surge" in hospital admissions.

He said the rate of uptake for fourth doses by Ontarians aged 70 and older — around 16 per cent — was “not acceptable” and said public health measures like mandatory masking could return “if necessary.”

“If there is any significant impact on our health system where we can’t care for Ontarians appropriately, I will absolutely have the conversation with the government (around) whether we have to mandate masking for a set period of time,” Moore told Global News.

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