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Ministry of Health 5th Floor, 777 Bay St. Toronto, ON M7A 2J3 March 12, 2020 Dear Minister, We are writing today to urge you to ensure that local public health agencies, local hospitals, and primary care providers are provided all the resources they need to prevent the community spread of COVID-19 in the Windsor Essex region and all of Ontario’s border communities, which have unique circumstances and challenges. While other communities will have COVID-19 assessment centres in Ontario, border communities such as ours were excluded from Thursday’s announcement. In Windsor Essex, we have thousands of people who cross our borders every day to enter the Detroit area. Daily border crossings are also common at entry points like Sault Ste. Marie. Border communities are unique and as such should warrant particular attention when it comes to being proactive in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Our emergency rooms are already at critical capacity. We also feel that it is important to recognize the tremendous work that our public health officials are doing to keep Ontarians as safe as possible under these fast evolving and difficult circumstances. It is our job as elected officials to ensure that our public health care system has all the resources needed to contain any spread of this virus, while also dealing with seasonally high volumes of influenza and other illness. Windsor and Essex County need to know that their government recognizes the stress our community is feeling and that no expense or effort is being spared in the mission to keep our families safe and healthy. We urge you to act quickly to address our concerns. Sincerely, Lisa Gretzky, MPP Percy Hatfield, MPP Taras Natyshak, MPP Windsor West Windsor-Tecumseh Essex .

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