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“We recognize that although we are facing and doing our emergency surgeries and our urgent procedures, there is a cost here,” Anderson said.
“We’re absolutely sensitive to that. And as you’ve heard everyone speaking today, we want to get out of this as fast as possible, get our hospitals back up safely.”
The decision to pause non-urgent procedures was one of several new measures announced by the provincial government Monday in response to the spread of the Omicron variant.
The province also imposed new restrictions on businesses and announced that the return to in-person learning would be delayed until at least Jan. 17.
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