{"id":10667,"date":"2020-09-21T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2020-10-06T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:47:42","slug":"centre-wellington-mayor-weighs-in-on-halloween-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/centre-wellington-mayor-weighs-in-on-halloween-and-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Wellington Mayor weighs in on Halloween and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halloween is creeping up here in the community, but could COVID-19 scare it off?<\/p>\n

Centre Wellington Mayor Kelly Linton says he hasn\u2019t heard of any direct concerns from people in the community regarding the candy filled night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do keep up on what\u2019s going on social media and I do see that people are concerned and that\u2019s no surprise,\" Linton said. \"Obviously, with COVID going on, people are concerned with any kind of interaction like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linton says that Halloween is not a township or county holiday and he does not have the authority to cancel it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing pretty good here in Wellington County and it\u2019s because we are being responsible,\u201d he said about active cases.<\/p>\n

The region currently only has four active cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kelly Linton:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Rita Isley, Chief Nursing Officer at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, says there aren't a lot of concerns with kids going out trick-or-treating in their neighbourhood, provided they follow all of the COVID-19 guidance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to wear face coverings, we want them to practice physical distancing, and we want them to remain in their bubble,\u201d Isley said.<\/p>\n

Isley says it would be a good idea for the parents of the children that are trick-or-treating to download the COVID-19 app, as it helps with identifying exposures, if that comes into play.<\/p>\n

However, Isley says Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health wants to be very cautious about Halloween this year as it relates to social gatherings and parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing and what we\u2019re experiencing from our COVID counts across the province is we\u2019re seeing an increase and a lot of those increases are related to these types of gatherings or parties\u2019 people are attending,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Isley stresses that Halloween parties in 2020 should be avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween is creeping up here in the community, but could COVID-19 scare it off? Centre Wellington Mayor Kelly Linton says he hasn\u2019t heard of any direct concerns from people in the community regarding the candy filled night. \u201cI do keep up on what\u2019s going on social media and I do see that people are concerned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":10675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,223],"tags":[1454,284,1453,1455],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,1369,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}