Ottawa's public health officials are warning that the number of cases of COVID-19 could rise "exponentially" if people don't continue to take precautions to distance themselves now that some pandemic-era rules have been relaxed. "One of the challenges that we have with COVID is this pre- or asymptomatic spreading," said Dr. Doug Manuel, a senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)"At the first stage of flattening [the curve of cases], it was a very simple message: 'Don't do anything,'" Manuel told reporters. "But now we're in this really tricky stage where the messaging is a little bit less clear. It's a challenging stage to communicate clearly how to maximize that little bit of credit that we've earned."

Source: CBC News June 12, 2020 22:07 UTC