Owners and managers of businesses that serve football fans in the Windsor area say they’re benefiting from the unexpected success of the Detroit Lions.
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“Ontario will pull the emergency brake,” Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday.
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The lockdown is necessary to control a surging third wave of COVID-19 infections driven by more contagious and lethal virus variants, the premier and the province’s science advisory table said. Sixty-seven per cent of new cases are virus variants.
“This is a new pandemic. We are now fighting a new enemy,” Ford said, citing 2,557 new infections reported Thursday, a 41 per cent increase in hospital admissions in the last two weeks, a risk of ICU admission that is two times higher and risk of death that is 1.5 times higher than the original novel coronavirus.
Posted: Jan 25, 2021 5:20 PM ET | Last Updated: January 25
The Panache Restaurant on Pitt Street East is one of several restaurants in Windsor Essex that can take advantage of DINE#YQG.(Dale Molnar/CBC)
The Windsor-Essex County Regional Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island (TWEPI) and CUPE Local 543 to provide a $154,000 program to help local restaurants struggling with the pandemic closure. We all know that because of the pandemic and because of the long term condition, this particular sector has taken a huge hit, said chamber president Rakesh Naidu in a teleconferenced announcement Monday morning.
The program called DINE#YQG includes a website that lists local restaurants and has pictures featuring some of their meals and how to place an order.