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Windsor’s two border crossings will each have on-site COVID-19 testing for non-essential travellers starting March 4, as part of stricter testing and quarantine requirements announced Friday by the Government of Canada.
The new measures will “help prevent variants of concern from reaccelerating the pandemic and making it more difficult to contain,” the government said in a news release. They go even further than an announcement made earlier this week requiring non-essential travellers to present proof of a negative test, taken in the U.S. within three days of arrival in Canada, starting Feb. 15.
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Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 12, 2021 • 3 minute read • Mezzo Ristorante co-owner Filip Rocca says local restauranteurs are relieved they can reopen starting Tuesday as the region moves to the red level of Ontario s COVID-19 restrictions, but they re frustrated by rules that they say don t make sense. He s seen in a June 23 file photo. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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Restaurants, bars, non-essential stores and gyms in Windsor and Essex County can reopen, again, starting Tuesday.
The region will move to the red level of Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions and will no longer be subject to the stay-at-home order, the government announced Friday.
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School board administrators are still considering the fallout from the government postponement of March break.
Education minister Stephen Lecce announced Thursday that a one-week break for public schools in the province was being pushed back to April 12-16 from its original slot on the calendar of March 15-19.
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Lecce said he was following the advice of Ontario’s health officials amid fears that a week off in March would lead to a spike in youth-related COVID-19 cases.