RENFREW --
UPDATE: Ontario Premier Doug Ford will announce a month-long provincewide shutdown on Thursday, sources tell CTV News. This means Renfrew County won't be going into 'Orange-Restrict,' but will be subject to the same shutdown rules as the rest of the province.
After being considered one of the safer health units in the province in terms of COVID-19 transmission, Renfrew County looks set to move into the Orange-Restrict zone for the first time in the coming days.
"I think it’s pretty much certain that we’re going to go there," says Dr. Robert Cushman, the region’s Acting Medical Officer of Health. "If you look at our numbers last week they were orange."