With summer-like weather across eastern Ontario and a drop in COVID-19 cases and vaccinations, an infectious disease specialist says now is the time to reopen certain sports currently banned by the province. Golf, basketball, tennis and skateboarding have all been shuttered since Premier Doug Ford's government tightened restrictions under the stay-at-home order in early April. "We don't see a downside to [outdoor activities] and we see what really amounts to an upside to helping people with their mental health," he said. "The risk of transmission of COVID if you're outdoors is extraordinarily lower than it is indoors." Optimism biasFor the past year, health officials have been saying the outdoors is safer than indoors, but being outside doesn't make someone immune.

Source: CBC News May 19, 2021 07:52 UTC