COVID-19 on P.E.I.: What's happening Sunday, Aug. 30

The COVID-19 Workspace Adaption Assistance Fund, a provincial program intended to help pay for changes in the workplace related to the virus, ends Monday.

Access P.E.I. Wellington will be reopening to the public Monday. The Montague location will continue offering service without contact until Oct. 2.

UPEImen's soccer playerEvan Couturier was called up as an emergency goalkeeper for Ontario's York9 FC in theIsland Games matchup against the HFX Wanderers FC, as the Canadian Premier League continues playing its season in a bubble on P.E.I.

"He'skind of like the Zamboni driverat the NHL games," Lewis Page, Couturier's coach with the Panthers, told CBC on Saturday afternoon.

It comes amid a week of solidarity actions among professional sports leagues and players, including those in the top Canadian soccer league who took a knee this week againstsystemic racism against Black people.

A powerful pause for the sporting world

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Devin Heroux of CBC Sports reflects on a week in sports that saw a united show of solidarity across professional leagues in support of racial justice.

In a Facebook post, the P.E.I. government is inviting Islanders to pop questions to the province's chief public health officer Dr. Heather Morrison and school officials ahead of a Q&A session on Monday at 4:30 p.m.

Some new policies will be put in place such asmandatory use of masks in certain situationsto prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Here's a handy guide onwhat parents and students need to knowbefore heading back to school buildings for class as soon asSept. 8.

P.E.I. has confirmed a total of 44cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, with no deaths or hospitalizations. Forty-one of those cases are considered to be recovered.

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• A series of protest banners are on display in Charlottetown as part of the Art in the Open festival.
• P.E.I. is further easing its border restrictionsto allow family members of seasonal residents to applyfor entry.
• From Flower Buds to Nasty Cracks, here's how some P.E.I. businesses chose their creative names.
• Data released this week by Statistics Canada is suggesting thepandemic has had a worse impactfor people living with disabilities and long-term conditions.
• Some hotel operators on P.E.I. are reporting anearly 80 per cent drop in businessthis summer due to COVID-19.

Further resources

• Here isinformation for livingwith the COVID-19 pandemic on P.E.I. including information on government relief programs, physical distancing measures, and essential health services.
• Here is achart tracking COVID-19 numbers and a timeline of COVID-19-related events on P.E.I.

More COVID-19 stories from CBC P.E.I.