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HALIFAX:<\/strong> The chief medical officer of health for N.S. said public health is looking at a way to do a careful risk assessed reopening for small businesses, like pubs, bars, and restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Robert Strang was responding to a question asked by The Laker News, reiterating a bit of what had been said previously in press conferences held before the Christmas break. It was a question poised to The Laker on twitter over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re actively looking at that,\u201d said Dr. Strang during the Dec. 29 briefing. \u201cWe\u2019re being very cautious, keeping things closed down as we get past New Years, and then we\u2019ll be looking at the week of Jan. 4 we\u2019ll look at what our epidemiology showing us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said what they don\u2019t want to see is a spike in cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Strang said based on the epidemiology they see that will determine what direction they move too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ll start to look at is it possible to start to loosen up some of the restrictions that have been in place,\u201d he said. \u201cMy hope is that we can, but I\u2019m not going to get out ahead of myself before we have the epidemiology in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said at that point he would have a conversation with Premier Stephen McNeil about what they do next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI use the word balance a lot,\u201d said Dr. Strang. \u201cIt\u2019s always about balancing the necessary COVID restrictions but knowing they all come with their own impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur focus still needs to be having the right level of COVID safety. Hopefully, we\u2019re in a place early in the New Year where we can loosen things up a bit, but we must have the right amount of time and get us the information on what the early New Year looks like to see what, if any impacts the holidays have given us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”94″] HALIFAX: The chief medical officer of health for N.S. said public health is looking at a way to do a careful risk assessed reopening for small businesses, like pubs, bars, and restaurants. Dr. Robert Strang was responding to a question asked by The Laker News, reiterating a bit of what had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[975,983,50,1121,721],"class_list":["post-19024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-covid19","tag-dr-robert-strang","tag-halifax","tag-reopening","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}