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Health officials are asking anyone who attended an event at the Church of the Queensway to place themselves in voluntary quarantine. This after another case of measles was announced on Family Day morning.  The total number of  confirmed cases in Ontario is now said to be 11.   Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robin Williams says anyone who attended the Acquire the Fire event at the church  may be at risk. Williams said that a person who has the virus attended the event during the measles infectious period. Individuals who attended the events, and are born after 1970, are requested to review their immunization status to ensure they’re protected against the measles, the statement said. Anyone who has not been immunized is requested to “self-isolate” and contact public health officials, or call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000. They’re asked not to attend a doctor’s office or health centre without calling first to warn of the risk. “They should not attend any public gatherings and should not attend school, work, daycare or any post-secondary institutions until they are cleared of measles risk,” the statement said. Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose, inflammation of the eyes and rash. If individuals who attended the event develop one or more of the symptoms in the next two weeks, they’re asked to contact their doctor and their local public health unit. 

Health officials are asking anyone who attended an event at the Church of the Queensway to place themselves in voluntary quarantine. This after another case of measles was announced on Family Day morning.  The total number of  confirmed cases in Ontario is now said to be 11.   Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robin Williams says anyone who attended the Acquire the Fire event at the church  may be at risk. Williams said that a person who has the virus attended the event during the measles infectious period. Individuals who attended the events, and are born after 1970, are requested to review their immunization status to ensure they’re protected against the measles, the statement said. Anyone who has not been immunized is requested to “self-isolate” and contact public health officials, or call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000. They’re asked not to attend a doctor’s office or health centre without calling first to warn of the risk. “They should not attend any public gatherings and should not attend school, work, daycare or any post-secondary institutions until they are cleared of measles risk,” the statement said. Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose, inflammation of the eyes and rash. If individuals who attended the event develop one or more of the symptoms in the next two weeks, they’re asked to contact their doctor and their local public health unit. 

The growth of downtown high-rise living has begun to reveal that home delivery of groceries may be more than a mere solution looking for a problem. Such a to-your-door Toronto start up is Urbery (cute name) which is said to be run by Mudit Rawat, a graduate of the Schulich School of Business. Urbery will shop at any local grocery store — Loblaws, Sobey’s, Longo’s or, one supposes, Summerhill Market — and deliver it within three hours. Dreamy if you need such things but don’t start calling because things are not quite in place yet. The company is searching for people who are mad about shopping to provide a level of service that might build a moneyed clientele. Delivery fee is based on the order size and can run from $9.99 for an order between $0 – $34.99 all the way down to $0 for orders over $99.99. In New York the established service Instacart has a reputation for service such as texting a customer to see if she wants the Expresso beans ground or not. That’s what you call service and it is not easy to achieve. Urbery’s online catalogue is said to offer over 3,000 products but we’re not sure how that works since they are shopping at somebody else’s store. The Wall Street Journal story linked below written by Anna Kadet is very entertaining and has a lot of detailed information like prices and things that can go wrong. She says AmazonFresh is terrifying. It has 500,000 items to choose from or be speechless over. Delivery is frequently in the $4 to  $6 range. Kadet makes an amusing note that her Whole Foods delivery did not cost her the locally-whispered Whole Cheque but in fact was quite  reasonable. Good luck.  Wall Street Journal  Urbery