To take a snapshot of the situation, CBC News sent a team out to record how many people were wearing masks at this moment in time. In total, we observed 2,700 Winnipeg shoppers at 15 major retail locations throughout the city over three days last week. My own experience has been that not many Winnipeggers are wearing masks, so in that respect I was positively surprised," he said. But within the breakdown of locations on the days observed, overall mask wearing varied significantly as well. "One of the things that we know is that wearing masks is a public health measure, and it's up to [health officials] to provide messaging to us that we should be wearing those masks.

Source: CBC News September 02, 2020 09:56 UTC