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Toronto and Peel Will Begin Reopening Next Week, Stay-at-Home Order to be Lifted
The Ontario government announced on Mar. 5 that Toronto and the Peel Region will transit into the grey zone of the province’s COVID-19 reopening framework on next Monday, with the stay-at-home order lifted as well.
“Our government is taking a safe and cautious approach to returning to the Framework and due to our progress, all regions of the province will soon be out of the provincewide shutdown,” Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott said in a news release.
“Despite this positive step forward, a return to the Framework is not a return to normal.”
The 1,023 infections mark a decrease from Sunday’s report when 1,062 cases were added. The province logged 1,185 cases on Saturday and 1,258 cases on Friday.
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What you need to know, at a glance
Canada receive its largest shipment from Pfizer-BioNTech, with 643,000 doses delivered and distributed to the provinces and territories.
More than 1.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in Canada as of Thursday
Ottawa sees two new deaths, 62 new confirmed cases
There have been 439 deaths and 14,532 total cases.
There are 457 active cases in the city
Severe cases remain relatively constant: 21 people in hospital, eight in ICU
Ottawa’s stats remain at the Orange (Restrict) level in the province’s framework: weekly test positivity rate 2.1 per cent (must remain below 2.4 per cent), weekly average rate of infection at 35.6 (must remain under 39.9) and R(t) number measuring secondary cases spread by infected person) remains around 1.02 (must be between 1.0 and 1.1)
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The Downtown Improvement Area wants the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit to reevaluate restrictions placed on small business during the current stay-at-home order.
The downtown is ready to re-open, “and we are prepared to do so in a safe manner,” Michelle Trudeau, chair of the Downtown North Bay & Waterfront board of directors, writes in a letter to Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams, Dr. Jim Chirico, the local health unit’s medical officer of health, Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli, Mayor Al McDonald and city coucil.
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