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Health and political leaders in Toronto and neighbouring Peel Region want pandemic restrictions eased slightly to allow more in-person shopping and an end to the stay-at-home order put in place seven weeks ago.
They made the call for a less restrictive set of rules on Wednesday amid drops in the overall number of infections, compared to earlier this year, but an increased incidence of COVID-19 variants that are more easily transmitted. Many types of businesses would remain closed, including museums, hair salons, gyms and cinemas. Indoor dining would still be prohibited.
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6:53 pm Here are today’s COVID-19 numbers from Toronto Public Health:
There have been 650 new cases and 20 deaths in the city since yesterday. There are 473 people are in hospital.
Toronto’s seven-day moving average for new infections is 598 and the number of confirmed active cases in the city is 7,060.
To date, there have been 85,260 cases in Toronto, 75,825 of those have recovered and 2,375 people have died.
Today’s also count includes approximately 80 cases from a small backlog of records that are being cleared.
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