10 Apr 2021 / 09:01 H.
(Adds reaction from restaurant industry group, teachers union, details of Quebec lockdown)
By Allison Martell and Moira Warburton
TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario will enter a limited lockdown for 28 days on Saturday, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise and more dangerous virus variants take hold, the premier said on Thursday.
The lockdown for Canada s most populous province will fall short of enacting a stay-at-home order, which new government modeling released earlier on Thursday suggested would be necessary to avoid a doubling to some 6,000 new COVID-19 cases per day by late April.
Ontario s third lockdown since the pandemic began will shutter all indoor and outdoor dining, although retailers will remain open with capacity limits, Premier Doug Ford said, calling the measures pulling the emergency brake on the entire province.
10 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H.
(Adds detail from briefing, letter from doctors)
TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - New cases of COVID-19 in the Canadian province of Ontario could double unless the government imposes a stay at home order, according to new modeling released on Thursday by an expert panel advising the provincial government.
The projection showed cases in the latest surge jumping to 6,000 per day by late April, but suggested a two- or four-week stay at home order imposed on April 5 could reverse the rise in new infections.
The new model came as more than 150 critical care doctors published a letter urging the province to act to halt a wave of infections in Canada s most populous province.
UPDATE 1-New COVID-19 cases in Ontario will double without stay home order -expert panel Reuters 1 hr ago
(Adds detail from briefing, letter from doctors)
TORONTO, April 1 (Reuters) - New cases of COVID-19 in the Canadian province of Ontario could double unless the government imposes a stay at home order, according to new modeling released on Thursday by an expert panel advising the provincial government.
The projection showed cases in the latest surge jumping to 6,000 per day by late April, but suggested a two- or four-week stay at home order imposed on April 5 could reverse the rise in new infections.
The new model came as more than 150 critical care doctors published a letter urging the province to act to halt a wave of infections in Canada s most populous province.
By Reuters Staff
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FILE PHOTO: A man walks with a face mask on the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 11, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
TORONTO (Reuters) - New cases of COVID-19 in the Canadian province of Ontario could double unless the government imposes a stay at home order, according to new modeling released on Thursday by an expert panel advising the provincial government.
The projection showed cases in the latest surge jumping to 6,000 per day by late April, but suggested a two- or four-week stay at home order imposed on April 5 could reverse the rise in new infections.
The Canadian province of Ontario will enter a limited lockdown for 28 days on Saturday, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise and more dangerous virus variants take hold, the premier said on Thursday.