Ontario Assessing COVID-19 Trends to Decide Control Levels
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Thunder Bay Unless there is a serious change, it is likely that Thunder Bay will remain in the Orange Protect category for COVID-19. On Friday, the Ontario government announced that the Peel Region and Toronto will remain in the Grey-Lockdown level and a re-assessment will happen for those regions on January 4, 2020.
Premier Doug Ford will be holding an emergency meeting with health officials.
Thunder Bay has seen the overall numbers of active cases drop. What is likely keeping the District out of being placed in the Red-Control Zone is that the rates of positive tests over the past two weeks has been below the guideline of 2.5 per cent. The number of cases reported at 40 per 100,000 of population is one of the criteria. The Thunder Bay District has met that criteria over the past two weeks.
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Fast Facts: Kingston-area joins Ottawa, Eastern Ontario Health Unit in orange-restrict level on Monday Ontario reports 2,000 COVID-19 cases for a fourth-straight day; 57 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday Eastern Ontario Health Unit orders big box stores to set capacity limits for each department Ottawa Public Health says a sports practice in Ottawa led to 89 COVID-19 cases and forced hundreds to self-isolate
COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa:
New cases: 57 new cases on Friday
Total COVID-19 cases: 9,268
COVID-19 cases per 100,000 (previous seven days): 30.4
Positivity rate in Ottawa: 1.4 per cent (Dec 11-17)
Reproduction Number: 0.98 (seven day average)
Testing: Ottawa Public Health says there are four reasons to seek testing for COVID-19:
/ Napanee Today
Dec 18, 2020 6:16 PM
The government of Ontario announced that the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) region will move from the Yellow–Protect level to the Orange–Restrict level of the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open COVID-19 Response Framework. The sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in KFL&A over the past two weeks means that the region meets the criteria for the orange–restrict level, with a weekly incidence rate between 25 and 39.9 cases per 100,000.
The move to the orange–restrict level means that intermediate public health measures will come into effect in the KFL&A region on Monday, December 21, at 12:01 a.m. The additional measures include limited hours of operations for certain settings, limits on the hours for sale at food and drink establishments, limits on the number of individuals permitted in certain settings and required screening of patrons to establishments.
OTTAWA Bars, restaurants, fitness centres, gyms, sports, movie theatres and other businesses in the Kingston-area will face new restrictions starting Monday. The Ontario government announced Friday afternoon that the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health region will move into the orange-restrict zone under the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework. The health unit reports 36.6 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people over the last seven days. There were 16 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kingston-area on Friday. The criteria for the orange-restrict level is a weekly incidence rate of between 25 and 39.9 cases per 100,000 people. In the orange-restrict level of Ontario s colour-coded COVID-19 restriction system, last call for bars and restaurants is at 9 p.m., and establishments must close at 10 p.m. except for take out and delivery. Capacity restrictions limit the number of people sitting at a table to four people.