cases of covid19 in canada
including 9032 deaths
89 of people have now recovered
labs across canada have tested 4 million
840 and forty three people for covert
nineteen to date
over the past week an average of forty
three thousand people were tested daily
with about one percent testing positive
based on the most recent seven days
there have been an average of
over 380 cases reported daily from
across the country
last week we presented the latest
epidemiological and modeling data
on covet 19 in canada and discussed
being prepared for the fall
it's no secret that we'll continue to
have cases given that covet 19
is circulating worldwide but we also
know that we have laid the groundwork
to tackle these cases as they come if we
can all keep
working together our progress
in getting through the initial wave of
covert 19 in canada
showed our ability to persevere and
adapt
with a collective goal in mind we made
sacrifices
and kept at it despite the hardships so
that we
could reopen at the savior's time
remember treading cautiously carefully
down the mountain of the initial wave
the idea was to get the infection rate
low and build up capacity
that would allow us to reopen while
quickly responding to keep the epidemic
in a slow burn scenario this is still
the scenario
i'm hopeful we can maintain where local
public health are able to manage
every new chain of transmission and not
be overwhelmed with too many cases
or too many contacts in an uncontrolled
spread scenario
as schools across canada reopen i am
confident
that we have what it takes to adjust
adapt
and stay the course we all need to keep
up with our habits of physical
distancing washing our hands often
and wearing masks as appropriate while
also
following local public health guidance
and adjusting to adapted environments
to reduce the risk of spread things will
be different
and there will be uncertainties but by
proceeding with caution
we'll tackle these together to make sure
our kids
and our families can resume essential
learning
social development and activities we all
enjoy
thank you bonjour
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thank you thank you doctors we will now
move to questions
we ask that you limit yourself to one
question and only one follow-up
for those asking a question in the room
we do ask that you make your way over to
the freestanding mics
we're going to change it up today and
start in the room so cbc over to you
hi it's kind of caught off guard there
thank you so much for making yourself
available
i i guess the first question that i just
have for you all
is you know there's a lot of talk about
elections
and possibly going to the polls during a
pandemic new brunswick is certainly
um are you all involved in discussions
with that and if so can you take us
inside some of the things that you're
thinking about
um yeah maybe take us inside some of
those conversations
maybe i'll start um we actually
haven't been engaged in those discussion
to date but i do think
that we have guidance in terms of public
health
measures and recommendations and how to
do things in a safe as possible manner
as we can so if you were talking about
you know people going in person to vote
and that type of thing
then i would expect that any setup
respects
the public health recommendations in
terms of physical distancing
mask wearing indoors hand hygienic
measures all of those things have to be
in place to
safely i think conduct elections
and i think you know obviously people
explore other
maybe technological advancements that uh
allows you to maybe not
attend i don't know where those that's
that's not within my area of um
of expertise or you know scope but
all of those kind of new ways of
doing our regular daily activities or
business
have to be explored and when you say
that you haven't been involved in
conversations is it just
dr tam that you haven't been consulted
or anything like that
or it's not in your purview jurisdiction
it's an elections canada thing
it just yeah um i think it's partly
because
it's we expect every um
setting every business every sector to
already be preparing
uh based on public health guidance so um
if they haven't reached out it's
probably because they are looking
at what they need to do in their own
context
and follow up with local public health
provincial
or federal most on the ground kind of
activity
in running any of these activities sort
of really relate to local
you know areas of jurisdictions from a
public health perspective as well
if i could just quickly um ask you know
we keep hearing from
from from you all and other uh
you know uh chief medical officers and
provinces that they're seeing cases
elevated cases among young people among
people my age
and then we hear that the the marketing
and the messaging to
to this group needs to change is there
any update about
when we might see the messaging or
targeting messaging for young people
that
speaks to speak to them
that's a really great question and i
think we can all do better
i know that from a federal government
perspective
a lot of thought is being put into how
we do this
um as as as it's happening right now i
think
there's some uh new youth testimonials
for example just
youth speaking about their own
experience with kobe 19 that was just
uh posted and launched and we have
other um initiatives that
are you know one is expected to roll out
as we speak
i think it's really important to engage
the input
from um from young persons
these are the people with the live
experience and that their
ideas and the innovation is going to be
really critical
i also know that young people are
particularly good and engaging in the
sort of social media
domain and that they have lots of ideas
and there's lots of youth influences i
think that can be leveraged as well
so um we are also trying to um
in addition to conducting um
sort of engagement with different groups
in
inputting into our messaging or our
communication products
is actually leveraging uh behavioral
insight and science
in trying to change of those messages so
that it is
um you know it it's appealing to the
audience that we're trying to reach
and i think um you know we welcome ideas
i think an innovation from
youth and young adults and if you have
ideas
certainly we would like to hear about
them
the other aspects it's really about
empowerment
i think as people go back to colleges as
people go to work
in different settings they can control
their risk and minimize their risk and
minimize spread so
i think um
you know there's definitely proven
things that we can all do
and that's the same message to youth
because i think
the last thing people like to hear from
you know maybe people of a different
generation is telling them what to do
when in fact i think the answers
actually come from
uh youth and young adults
wonderful thank you dr tim operator over
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