“I honestly cannot believe you tweeted this as though it deserves a pat on the back. The tweet attracted almost 500 responses, many of them critical. “They are doing great work to meet the additional space requirements due to COVID-19,” Rajan Sawhney tweeted. On Tuesday, Alberta’s Minister of Community and Social Services posted a photo of makeshift shelters, with mats on the floor less than two metres apart, in Red Deer and Lethbridge. “The people who are lying next to each other are not just one metre apart from one head to another, but they're actually further apart because of the diagonal distance between the two heads,” she added. “It's trying to weigh out the risks to those individuals who need to use those shelters, with respect to transmission, and the risks of having them potentially out in the cold,” Hinshaw responded, saying the exemption she approved doubled much-needed shelter capacity.
Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, was asked why one metre distancing was now being allowed, when generally, the province recommends Albertans stay two metres apart in public to reduce the likelihood of coronavirus spread. Provincial officials defended their plan to have homeless people sleep on mats one metre apart from each other, at Alberta’s daily COVID-19 briefing Wednesday.ĭr.
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