Municipal, hospital and public health officials will join forces – at a safe distance – Friday for a second Facebook Live interactive session with the public on Friday.
Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff, C-K Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Colby, C-K CAO Don Shropshire and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance President and CEO Lori Marshall will participate in a second online COVID-19 question-and-answer session April 3 at noon.
The meeting will be livestreamed through the municipality’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/MunicCK/ where viewers will be able to submit questions through Facebook as the event unfolds.
Viewers will be also able to view the session on the Facebook site once it concludes.
Canniff said the session allows residents direct access to those in positions of authority as the community deals with the pandemic.
“It’s important for the community to be able to ask questions about the situation and how we’re responding to it,” he said in a press release. “The media has done a great job of keeping the public informed and this is one more way for us to accomplish that important goal.”
The March 24 session had more than 600 participants at its peak and has been viewed more than 13,000 times on the Chatham-Kent Facebook site.
Anyone who wants to submit a question in advance can do so by emailing ckcommunications@chatham-kent.ca
“We will be taking live questions as well as those submitted in advance,” the mayor said. “We will get to as many as we can during the live session and municipal staff will be reviewing unanswered questions once the session has concluded. There are a number of similar questions, so if yours has been answered earlier in the session it may not be repeated.”
