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Last Updated Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:19PM EDT TORONTO - Ontario is moving ahead with its plan to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates among staff at long-term care homes while easing restrictions that have kept residents locked down in their rooms for months. Newly appointed Minister of Long-Term Care Rod Phillips said 99 per cent of nursing home residents and 84 per cent of staff are fully vaccinated. He said 92 per cent of staff have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The high vaccination rate will allow the province to begin loosening restrictions beginning on July 7, Phillips said. Residents will be allowed indoor visits with two general visitors and two caregivers, and they can visit with up to 10 people outdoors. Personal care services will resume in the homes, and there will no longer be a limit on the number of people who can be designated caregivers.
After a year that revealed the cracks in Ontario's long-term care system and saw the government promise changes, some repeat offenders continue to be cited by provincial inspectors for serious violations of Ontario’s Long-Term Care Act.