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Grocery store, person fined for violating Ontario’s COVID-19 emergency orders
Murray did not specify what the grocery store was fined for but it was charged with $750. While for the other case, he said that it was an outdoor setting. The cost for the individual is also 0.
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People are expected to comply with the government’s orders in curbing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but Ontario just recorded two more charges of violations.
Region of Waterloo Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Mike Murray, in a media briefing on Wednesday, said that one case is a grocery store in Kitchener while the other is a person in Cambridge.
Murray did not specify what the grocery store was fined for but it was charged with $750. While for the other case, he said that it was an outdoor setting. The cost for the individual is also 0.
“Again, a person not complying with provincial orders,” he added.
Murray did not give further details. He explained that, “We’ve consistently through this whole period not identified specific organizations or people that are charged, but we’ve given the general classification and so I think we’re just continuing with that approach.”
Ontario’s emergency orders limits gatherings of more than five people who are not in the same household. It also temporarily closed non-essential businesses.
In the past week, there were a total of 1, 812 contacts in the region; which includes site visits, phone calls, and charges. 289 were sit visits where education was given or warnings were issued. 1,426 were site visits but no action was required.
