There are now 18 confirmed COVID-19 cases in people who work at or visited a Kingston, Ont., salon, almost a quarter of the area's total known cases. Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health declared an outbreak of COVID-19 at Binh's Nails and Spa in the west of the eastern Ontario city on Thursday and closed it until further notice. I'm just happy this was caught early," Moore said, adding he believes the outbreak started about a week ago. Those 18 new cases would mean the area has had 81 confirmed cases, just two of them in May and none in June until this week. Moore said the public health team is considering making masks mandatory in public and is reminding people to wear masks in personal service settings such as a salon, while making sure staff are following mask and hygiene rules.

Source: CBC News June 26, 2020 14:33 UTC