Mayor John Tory urging residents to follow guidelines as COVID cases surge across province

By News Staff

Mayor John Tory is urging Torontonians to stay home, except for essential reasons, as the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to surge in the city and across the province.

Tory joined Breakfast Television Thursday morning and said the City’s messaging has been consistent throughout this pandemic.

“If they stayed home, except for going to get food, except for exercise, and except going to work or school, I absolutely am confident these numbers would change right away. The trend lines are very very disconcerting and I think you’re going to hear, you know, worse today in regards of that trendline,” Tory said as the province is set to release its COVID-19 projections for the holiday season.

Dr. Eileen De Villa echoed Tory’s sentiment, telling Torontonians “don’t become a case.”

Tory says that if people have to leave their home for work they should commute directly to and from their place of employment and not make any social calls.

“Please stay home, please don’t socialize, please wash your hands, please wear a mask, please keep your distance from other people, please avoid crowded scenes, I mean these are things we’ve been saying consistently and the best advice we have is that that will do a lot,” he said.

Tory also cautions if the numbers don’t improve, even stricter lockdown measures could be implemented, adding if residents get back to acting how they did in the spring – there is a greater hope of saving Christmas.

The strong message came as Toronto is set to move to Ontario’s red zone of tiered restrictions on Saturday.

Under those level of restrictions, indoor dining will be closed in the city.

Meeting spaces, movie theatres, and casinos in Toronto will also be ordered to remain closed.

WATCH: Toronto Mayor John Tory on Breakfast Television discussing the city moving into a modified red zone

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