Jim Karygiannis：COVID-19 Updates – April 3, 2020
Please take a moment to pass along this message to your family, neighbours and friends. If you would like to sign someone up for our e-mailing list, please send me their e-mail addresses at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
City of Toronto
· City of Toronto to resume yard waste collection for a period of two weeks, beginning April 6 to April 17
· To ensure health and safety, residents should only use yard waste bags, not open-top containers and residents are asked to put their yard waste out before 7 a.m. on their regularly scheduled garbage/yard waste collection day
· The City of Toronto announced that it is experiencing a financial pressure estimated at $65 million a week. Revenues are decreased due to closures, decreased demands, and property tax and utility payment deferrals, and increased costs are stemming from COVID-19 related needs like additional PPE, cleaning, shelter space and overtime
· The City is requesting relief funding from the federal and provincial governments to offset the cumulative financial impact
· Spring recreation, arts and museum programs are being cancelled and 5400 recreational workers will not be hired
· Ontario government released modeling projections that stated there would have been approx. 100,000 deaths over the course of the COVID-19 outbreak without public health measures
· The Ontario government indicated that if all measures and all available tools are implemented, the number may be reduced to the range of 3000-15,000 deaths
· Given the numbers provided by the Provincial government model – Toronto could experience 600-3000 deaths by the end of the pandemic
· The By-law announced yesterday that prohibits anyone who is not from the same household from being within 2 metres from one another in a park or public space will be fined $1000
Province of Ontario
· Ontario has launched a new user-friendly online portal for the public to easily access their COVID-19 lab test results https://covid19results.ehealthontario.ca:4443/agree
· Ontario government is reducing the list of businesses classified as essential services and ordering more workplaces to close
· The government is ordering all businesses not covered by the updated Emergency Order to close effective as of Saturday April 4, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. This closure will be in effect for at least 14 days
· Updated essential workplaces list: https://www.ontario.ca/page/list-essential-workplaces?_ga=2.153214008.1655370987.1585576067-721918803.1551207427
· The updated list restricts specified businesses (stores that sell hardware products, vehicle parts and supplies, pet and animal supplies, office supplies and computer products and repairs and safety supplies) to provide services by alternate methods such as curb side pick up and delivery except in exceptional circumstances - which includes stores that sell hardware products, vehicle parts and supplies, pet and animal supplies, office supplies and computer products and repairs and safety supplies
· Only critical construction projects will continue, including industrial projects such as refineries and petrochemical plants and infrastructure projects such as new hospitals, roads and bridges
· New starts in residential projects will stop, while residential construction that is near completion will continue
Government of Canada
· Canada has signed an agreement with Amazon Canada for the distribution of Personal Protective Equipment
· The federal government is funding $100 million to help meet the urgent food needs of vulnerable Canadians, including those in Indigenous communities. This money will go to organizations that help feed Canadians.
· Canada will work closely with the United States to ensure trade continues and the economy bounces back.
· Canada is working to ensure that medical supplies coming from the U.S. continue to be imported.
詹嘉禮市議員：應對COVID-19 每日更新―2020年4月3日
請花些時間把這個訊息傳遞給你的家人、鄰居和朋友。如果各位希望收到我們的每日更新，請將電子郵件地址發送給我：This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.。
多倫多市府
• 自4月6日至4月17日，市府將恢復後院垃圾收集，為期兩周。
• 因為健康與安全原因，居民應僅使用後院垃圾袋，而非敞開式容器。請於定期安排的後院垃圾收集日的早上7點之前擺放好後院垃圾，以便收集。
• 市府宣佈，本市正面臨預計每周6千5百萬加元的財政壓力。收入減少是由於許多場所關閉、需求減少、財產稅和公共設施費推遲交付。而支出增加是由於與COVID-19疫情相關的需求，比如購買額外的個人防護裝備、清潔費用、增加庇護所床位和加班費。
• 市府正在請求聯邦和省政府撥放救助資金，以應對累計財務的影響。
• 春季娛樂、藝術和博物館項目均被取消，將不會雇用5千4百名相關工作人員。
• 省府公開了COVID-19疫情預測模型，稱如果不採取公共衛生防疫措施，安省死亡人數可能將會多達約10萬人。
• 省府表示，如果執行全面抗疫措施，安省死亡人數可能會減少到3千至1萬5千人。
• 根據省府預測模型提供的數據― 直到大流行結束，多倫多市可能會有6百至3千人死亡。
• 市府昨日公佈的新例規定：在城市公園或公共廣場，除非家人，如果未能保持人際之間2米的距離，會被罰款1000加元。
安大略省府
• 省府推出了新的的在線端口，方便好用，令公眾更容易上網讀取COVID-19 的檢測報告。https://covid19results.ehealthontario.ca:4443/agree
• 省府正在收緊必需服務清單，下令關閉更多工作場所。
• 省府下令，自4月4日，星期六，晚11:59起，所有不包含在最新版必需服務清單內的商家必須關閉，此項政策為期至少14天。
• 最新版必需服務清單對特定企業(銷售硬件產品、汽車零部件和用品、寵物和動物用品、辦公用品、電腦產品與維修以及安全用品的商店)採取限制。要求這些企業通過路邊提貨和送貨等替代方法提供服務，除非在特殊情況下― 包括銷售硬件產品，汽車零件和用品，寵物和動物用品，辦公用品、電腦產品與維修以及安全用品的商店。
• 只有關鍵建築工程得以繼續，包括煉油廠和石化廠等工業項目以及新醫院、道路和橋梁等基礎設施建設。
• 新屋興建將停止，而即將竣工的住宅建築工程可以繼續。
加拿大聯邦政府
• 聯邦政府已與加拿大亞馬遜公司（Amazon Canada）簽署協議，由亞馬遜公司負責向各省和地區配送個人防護裝備。
• 聯邦政府將提供1億加元的資金，幫助加拿大弱勢群體， 包括原住民社區，得到他們急需的食物。此筆款項將會撥給加拿大的食物供給機構。
• 加拿大將與美國緊密合作，以確保貿易的持續與經濟的反彈。
• 聯邦政府正在尋求解決方法，使來自美國的醫療用品得以繼續進口。
Jim Karygiannis,
Councillor, Ward 22 Scarborough-Agincourt
3850 Finch Ave E G7
Scarborough Ontario M1T 3T6
(416) 392 1374 Phone
(647) 723 0287 Fax
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.karygiannis.net