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.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford will make an announcement Friday afternoon after cabinet considered new COVID-19 restrictions amid rising case counts and hospitalizations.
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Ford said Wednesday afternoon that vaccinations would be available for those in hot spots such as Toronto and neighbouring Peel Region next week.
Manufacturing workers have been told that the earliest potential inoculation is June, CME said, while their U.S. counterparts have largely completed vaccinating their employees.
The organization wants the province to prioritize essential production workers right after front-line workers and seniors. It s offering help to speed the vaccination rollout, including using industrial sites and resources to deliver vaccines.
Time is of the essence, they say, because hospital beds are becoming overrun with patients under 60 years old a dramatic shift from elderly patients and long-term care home residents who had the most severe reactions to the virus in the pandemic s early days. The new long-term care is the essential workplace and it will continue to be the new long-term care despite lockdown, said Dr. Zain Chagla, an infectious diseases s
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