While the Ontario government's preparing to lift its COVID-19 mask mandate for most settings, a local health unit's strongly recommending you keep wearing one.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts Medical Officer of Health Dr. Penny Sutcliffe say "despite recent promising trends in local COVID-19 metrics, the Omicron variant...is still circulating widely and the risk of infection and risk to our health care system has not passed", so she's "strongly recommending" people continue wearing masks in indoor crowded spaces, "especially if they have higher personal health risks or if their close circle includes those who are vulnerable to severe infection", emphasizing "the pandemic is not over" and the health unit's region still has higher COVID-19 rates than the rest of the province.
Ontario's masking mandate is set to lift March 21st, except for public transit, health care settings, long-term care homes, and congregate care settings - remaining measures are set to lift April 27th.