While applauding recently announced stricter COVID-19 restrictions on restaurants and bars by the Ontario Government, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says banquet halls and weddings in Brampton are a bigger concern.
“There continues to be a number of large events at banquet halls, and I think we need some tougher rules when it comes to banquet halls,” Brown told reporters during a Sept. 23 news conference.
“Interesting is that we’re hearing from public health that there’s not significant transmission among restaurants. They’ve handled the Stage 3 quite well, but where there’s an area of concern, we all have to keep an eye out is with banquet halls and weddings,” the mayor added during a committee of city council meeting later the same day.
Brown voiced his concerns about banquet halls two days before Premier Doug Ford announced new restrictions on bars, restaurants and strip clubs, including closing in-person dining and moving last call up to 11 p.m. Only delivery and takeout will be permitted after 11 p.m.
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The province’s decision comes in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases in Ontario, with Peel Region — especially Brampton — contributing a significant portion of daily lab-confirmed infections in recent weeks. There were 130 new cases confirmed in Peel on Friday (Sept. 26) — the highest single-day total since May 25 — with Brampton accounting for 89 of them.
The recent spike in cases also prompted the provincial government to reduce the permitted size of residential social gatherings in homes, backyards and parks from 50 indoors and 100 outdoors to 10 indoors and 25 outdoors. However, those changes to social gatherings did not include weddings and banquet halls.
Peel’s medical officer of health, Dr. Lawrence Loh, confirmed that a significant number of recent cases have been traced back to weddings and similar events at banquet halls, adding regional health authorities are monitoring the situation and may eventually recommend scaling back the current 50-person limit.
“Social gatherings are a start,” he said during the City of Brampton’s latest COVID-19 update. “We’ve had a number of wedding exposures and that’s been seen throughout the Greater Toronto Area. So, certainly, revisiting wedding and celebrations of that nature are things that we would look at.
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