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On February 8, 2021, Ontario issued a news release announcing that it would be
moving to a regional approach regarding its COVID-19 response. Most
regions are maintaining the province s shutdown, stay-at home
order, and public health and workplace safety measures. When safe,
the province will gradually transition each region from the
shutdown to a revised and strengthened
COVID-19 Response Framework: Keeping Ontario Safe
and Open (Framework). Premier Doug Ford indicated that
this approach is motivated by the impact COVID-19 has had on
businesses and a need to allow them to safely reopen.
February 11, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Ontario government has extended the stay-at-home order for most of the province while the state of emergency has now expired.
Premier Doug Ford made the announcement for the extension of the order and the move to a regional based approach on Monday (Feb. 8). The stay-at-home order will continue for 28 public health regions, including Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph until Feb. 16. For Toronto, York, and Peel, the stay-at-home order will stay in effect until Feb. 22.
While the stay-at-home order was extended for the most of the province, three public health units; Hastings Prince Edward Public Health, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox, & Addington Public Health, and Renfrew County and District Health Units have been exempted from the order.
Someone imagined Ontario ending lockdown through Lord of the Rings scenes
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People in Ontario are living for a Lord of the Rings take on the Province s eventual reopening that was posted to Reddit. This was incredible, nice work! Hilarious! wrote one person in the comment section below the video. This is amazing content right here! I laughed way too hard. Karen from OAKVILLE was on point, added another.
The video, posted by user u/jonasgla, features scenes from the movie as a foreshadowing of what it could look like when Ontario ends lockdown.
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District and Timiskaming health units will be in the least-restrictive green category. While we are cautiously and gradually transitioning some regions out of shutdown, with the risk of new variants this is not a reopening or a return to normal, Health Minister Christine Elliott said in a statement Friday. Until vaccines are widely available, it remains critical that all individuals and families continue to adhere to public health measures and stay home as much as possible to protect themselves, their loved ones and their communities. The province began a gradual reopening of its economy Wednesday by lifting the stay-at-home order for three regions with low case counts.