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Provincial offences officers are conducting follow-up visits to Eastern Ontario businesses this week to make sure businesses are following workplace safety rules during the COVID-19 pandemic.
OTTAWA Nineteen charges for a private gathering over the Christmas weekend, the U.K. COVID-19 variant detected in Ottawa and an eastern Ontario MPP facing backlash for his family Christmas photo. CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the top stories on our website this week. Several old Canadian paper bills lost their legal tender status on New Year s Day. The Bank of Canada said hundreds of millions of $1, $2, $25, $500, and $1,000 bills no longer have legal tender status, and merchants no longer have to accept them. Allanah Rossi is with Universal Coins on Bank Street, and says there are certain notes you may not want to take to the bank - The $25 commemorative bill is actually exceedingly rare.
Speaking on CTV News at Six with anchor Patricia Boal, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches said COVID-19 indicators show transmission is increasing in Ottawa.
OTTAWA As Ontario reports more than 2,900 new cases of COVID-19 for the first time ever, Eastern Ontario s top doctor suggests the numbers mean the COVID-19 lockdown will not end in 28 days. Public Health Ontario reported 2,923 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, including 64 cases in Ottawa and 16 in Eastern Ontario. That tells me that, we still got a lot of work to do. It also tells me that again most of them are in Toronto, said Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, Eastern Ontario s Medical Officer of Health. I ll be honest with you – I m just a bit discouraged with those numbers. The record 2,923 new cases of COVID-19 comes five days after Ontario entered a strict province-wide lockdown, forcing nearly all non-essential businesses to close. The lockdown is scheduled to last until Jan. 23 for all regions in southern Ontario, including Ottawa and the Eastern Ontario Health Unit.