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  OTTAWA -- An Ottawa pediatrician is urging the Ontario government to reopen schools to in-person learning across the province, calling the situation “a mental health, physical health and academic crisis.” Dr. Jane Liddle said with schools closed for Ontario’s two millions students since mid-April, problems facing youth have been escalating. “We’ve had a 200 per cent increase in mental health crisis, be it suicide attempts, eating disorders, substance abuse, I mean these all hav...

COVID-19 in Ontario on May 22: The province breaks a vaccine record and the seven-day average drops below 2,000

TORONTO, May 21 ― Ontario expects to permit outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people and allow non-essential retail to operate at 15 per cent capacity starting the week of June 14, contingent on certain vaccination rates being met, the premier said yesterday. Canada's most-populous province has been...

iPolitics By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on May 20, 2021 4:47pm Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his governments plans to reopen the economy on Thursday. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star) Ontario Premier Doug Ford revealed his government’s plan on Thursday to reopen the economy by easing public health restrictions over the next three months, pending vaccine coverage and declining case counts. The first phase of the three-phase plan will begin when the province reaches 60 per cent ...

By Sam Odrowski The Ford government’s latest announcement extending the stay-at-home order until June 2 came as no surprise, since the Province see’s limiting mobility as the only viable method of reducing COVID-19 transmission. But it was a little shocking to see outdoor recreation being kept close despite a growing consensus among health experts that outdoor transmission is extremely rare to non-existent. Even a scientific director of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, which rec...

May be possible to reopen schools and enjoy some outdoor activities without masks

Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Friday, May 21, 2021: There have been 517,090 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 2,400 cases from the previous day. There have been 485,512 people recovered from the virus while 8,552 have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 14,901,787 of which 20,642 have pending results. Canada’s coronavirus case total is 1,347,445. The country has 25,111 deaths from the virus ...

By Shawn Jeffords TORONTO — Ontario hospitals were given the green light Wednesday to gradually resume non-urgent surgeries as COVID-19 infections decline across the province. The chief medical officer of health said he was rescinding an emergency order issued April 20 that made hospitals temporarily stop the procedures during an onslaught of cases. Dr. David Williams said daily COVID-19 rates, hospitalizations and intensive care admissions appear to be trending downward, giving some hospit...

Premier Doug Ford is set to unveil details of the province's latest reopening plan around 3 p.m. ET as Ontario continues to see signs that the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is gradually receding.

Ontario reported another 2,400 cases of COVID-19 and 27 more deaths linked to the illness on Thursday.