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Premier Doug Ford on Thursday extended the stay-at-home order until June 2.
It’s the second time that the government has extended the emergency measure, which was scheduled to expire May 20. It means that the order, which began April 8, will continue for a total of almost eight weeks.
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It signals that Ford, 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, after three waves of infections, more than half a million cases, over 8,400 deaths and the near collapse of health care, has finally learned some hard lessons.
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The following public meetings/hearings are scheduled:
– Today, May 11: Sanibel City Council special meeting at 5 p.m. in MacKenzie Hall at City Hall, at 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel. For more information or the agenda, visit www.mysanibel.com.
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WINDSOR, ONT. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reporting 1,104 residents in two hot spot postal codes lined up Monday morning to get vaccinated. “We would like to thank those who braved the weather and the lines to be vaccinated,” says WECHU CEO Theresa Marentette. “Everyone who received a vaccine were very appreciative…Our own staff felt it was very rewarding.” Marentette says 702 vaccines were administered at St. Angela Centre and Hall while 402 were administed at Mackenzie Hall for inidividuals 18 and older living or working in postal codes N9A and N9C. The WECHU issued a news release around 1 p.m. saying they had reached the end of their vaccine allocation for the clinics. Final results found 80 per cent of those vaccinated were between the ages of 20 and 39 years old.