Good Afternoon All,

The City of Toronto has partnered with the Toronto Region Board of Trade to provide free COVID-19 rapid screening kits to small and medium-sized businesses across Toronto. Businesses with 150 or fewer employees are welcome to participate in this voluntary initiative and can visit www.bot.com/rapidscreening to order your initial four-week supply of testing kits from the Toronto Region Board of Trade and book a time slot for pickup.  These kits are handy to have in your businesses as an extra screening method for yourselves and your staff as we continue to move from Step 1 to Step 2 to Step 3 in the coming weeks.

Over the past few weeks we've had some issues with people not wanting to wear masks when entering businesses.  We've reached out to the City to provide information for business owners on this issue.  The City of Toronto has created a dedicated page for all things COVID-19 which can be viewed here - https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/. From safe reopening guidelines, to rules on mask wearing, informational posters in a number of languages for businesses, and more.  Please take a few minutes to review the information provided by the City.

Thanks,

Susan