{"id":29807,"date":"2020-03-23T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=29807"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:46:14","slug":"marathon-declares-state-of-local-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/marathon-declares-state-of-local-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon declares State of Local Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/b>The Town of Marathon remains diligent in monitoring the situation as it pertains to\u00a0CQVIO-19. We continue to evaluate all Public Health Agency communications as well as communications from other\u00a0Federal and Provincial Government Health Authorities. The health and well-being of our residents and community is of\u00a0great importance.<\/p>\n

Town of Marathon Council and the Emergency Control Group met today with Dr. Sarah Newbery and NOSH CEO Adam\u00a0Brown. Based on the outcomes of these discussions, via resolution of Town Council, the Town of Marathon has declared\u00a0an emergency to the Province of Ontario dated March 23, 2020, due to Public Health Concerns. This action is deemed\u00a0necessary to protect property and the health, safety, and welfare of our residents.<\/p>\n

“We must continue to implement preventative and proactive measures to mitigate the spread of this virus. I commend\u00a0everyone for your efforts to date, however, we have much more work to do. I ask all community members to continue to do\u00a0their part in mitigating the risks associated with COVID-19. I cannot stress strongly enough how important social distancing\u00a0is at this time.” Mayor Rick Dumas.<\/p>\n

“The entire medical team in our community – from clinic and hospital and public health , and from nurses to physicians,\u00a0maintenance, housekeeping, IT, reception and all our allied health providers – are working very hard to be prepared for\u00a0COVID19 patients. All of our clinical systems have changed, in the span of a week. We want to commend everyone who is\u00a0working to keep our community as safe as possible. We are relying on individual community members to join us in our\u00a0efforts, by following str ict social distancing practices and self-isolating whenever they are told to.” Dr. Sarah Newbery.<\/p>\n

“This is a serious and potentially overwhelming situation. At the hospital we are following all of the provincial guidance, and\u00a0planning to make difficult decisions as we need to. We know that this will be very difficult for many in our area, but we are\u00a0confident that if we can “flatten the curve” now, we will be able to minimize the need to make difficult decisions in the weeks\u00a0that come.” Adam Brown, CEO, NOSH.<\/p>\n

The Municipality will continue to closely monitor the situation and will provide updates to the community whe n new\u00a0information is available to us.<\/p>\n

The Town of Marathon has set up a web page on the municipal website dedicated to COVID-19. For more information,\u00a0please contact the Municipal office during regular business hours between 10:00am – 2:00pm at 229-1340; after hours at\u00a0229-6125. We encourage our residents to visit our Municipal website (W’N’N.marathon.ca) and Municipal Facebook page for\u00a0updated information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Town of Marathon remains diligent in monitoring the situation as it pertains to\u00a0CQVIO-19. We continue to evaluate all Public Health Agency communications as well as communications from other\u00a0Federal and Provincial Government Health Authorities. The health and well-being of our residents and community is of\u00a0great importance. Town of Marathon Council and the Emergency Control Group …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 07:08:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29809,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29807\/revisions\/29809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}