Ontario moves two more regions into lockdown in bid to contain COVID-19
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Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press
The stubborn growth of new COVID-19 infections has prompted Ontario to put two more regions into its grey, or “lockdown,” level of restrictions, despite pleas from businesses, local politicians and in one case, the objections of a local medical officer of health.
Both York Region, a sprawling suburb north of Toronto, and Windsor-Essex County, in the province’s southwest, will join Toronto and Peel Region under the province’s highest level of restrictions on Monday at 12:01 a.m.