TORONTO --
Ontario Premier Doug Ford will make an announcement Friday afternoon after cabinet considered new COVID-19 restrictions amid rising case counts and hospitalizations.
Among the measures were further restrictions on religious services, limits on non-essential manufacturing and warehousing, and shutting down construction to just critical infrastructure projects.
Sources told CTV News Toronto and CP24 that Ontario is also considering fining business owners is non-essential staff are being asked to physically go into work.
A provincewide curfew is also under consideration, sources say.
The premier will make the announcement at Queen’s Park alongside Health Minister Christine Elliott, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones, Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams.