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Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered yet another set of restrictions Friday to try to curb the spread of the pandemic, but some of those measures ran into a firestorm of criticism, so much so that he had to reverse them.
Still, COVID-19 daily case counts in Ontario continue to sky rocket, reaching more than 4,000 a day over the weekend, and hospitals are filling up with COVID-19 patients. Ford admitted, the province is on the ropes.
“We’re losing the battle between the variants and the vaccines," Ford said. "We’re on our heels”
It has become an almost weekly increase in restrictions, as Ontario's government scrambles to contain the rapid spread of the third wave of the pandemic. The new measures come in response to intensive care units bursting to capacity.