THE CANADIAN PRESS Shutdown impacing salons, retaurants and gyms as province tries to tame rising variant numbers Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case count surged back up over the 3,000 mark on Saturday, hours after a new provincewide “shutdown” took effect in a move meant to bring soaring infection rates back under control. The measures, introduced to combat what Premier Doug Ford called an “alarming” recent spike in COVID-19 infections and intended to last for at least four weeks, sounded economic alarm bells for some industry groups who say their sectors cannot withstand additional closures and financial losses. The provincewide “shutdown” came as a particular blow to salon operators in long-standing hot spots that were within weeks of reopening their doors to customers again, according to a spokeswoman with the Beauty United Council of Ontario.