Winnipeg Free Press
By: Melissa Couto Zuber, The Canadian Press
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From lockdown to shutdown to circuit breaker to emergency break, jurisdictions across the country have been using different buzzwords to describe periods of tightened COVID-19 restrictions.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement during the daily briefing at Queen's Park in Toronto on Thursday April 1, 2021. An Ontario-wide "shutdown'' will be put in place to combat an "alarming'' surge in COVID-19 infections, Ford said Thursday as intensive care admissions related to the virus surpassed those of the second wave of the pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
From lockdown to shutdown to circuit breaker to emergency break, jurisdictions across the country have been using different buzzwords to describe periods of tightened COVID-19 restrictions.