OTTAWA As the city of Ottawa wraps up its first weekend back in the orange zone, residents and businesses are preparing to make the same move in Gatineau. Restaurants, gyms and other businesses will be reopening in the Outaouais on Monday for the first time in months. The Outaouais region moves back to orange on Monday after being in the red zone since Oct. 11. The new restrictions include the curfew beginning 90 minutes later at 9:30 p.m., indoor dining will be allowed again with a limit of two adults per table, and gyms will open again too. It’s not going to be easy; you have to find people in one family, you have to ask, you have to clean after each customer, but we’ll do it, we did it, and we’re going to do it, said Fatima Semlali, owner of Chez Fatima.
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Ontario is reporting 904 new laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases on the day lockdown restrictions lift in 27 public health regions, including Ottawa and the surrounding regions
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada expects to receive its largest shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to date this week, with another, larger shipment due next week
Trudeau said he also spoke recently with executives from Moderna, and repeated his assurances that both manufacturers would fulfill their contractual commitments by the end of each financial quarter
Trudeau said six million combined doses were promised by the end of March from both manufacturers, “and that’s exactly what we will deliver,” he said
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Ottawa’s return Tuesday to the Orange-Restrict zone means that events and social gatherings in private homes, backyards and parks may now include 10 people for indoor gatherings and 25 for outdoor ones.
Organized public events and gatherings taking place in staffed businesses or facilities may now include 50 people indoors and 100 outside.
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Meanwhile, indoor religious services, weddings and funerals will be limited to 30 per cent of capacity, while outdoor ones can have a maximum of 100 people.