Medical Officer of Health explains why North Bay-Parry Sound stayed in lockdown longer
The North Bay-Parry Sound District health unit has moved from a stay-at-home order to the red zone in the province s COVID-19 framework.
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Posted: Mar 08, 2021 3:34 PM ET | Last Updated: March 8
The North Bay Parry Sound Health Unit has moved out of the province s grey zone restrictions and into the red zone.(Google Streetview)
SUDBURY Greater Sudbury will move into the red-control COVID framework on Monday, the province announced Friday afternoon. The lockdown in North Bay/Parry Sound will also end Monday, when the area will also move into the red zone. And the Timiskaming Health Unit is moving to orange after a recent increase in cases. From the period of Feb. 23 to March 2, case rates in North Bay Parry Sound District have decreased by 84.6 per cent to 3.1 cases per 100,000 people and the number of hospitalizations has shrunk from 1 to 0, the province said in a news release. Greater Sudbury had been in the orange designation, but a recent surge in cases – including a record 32 new cases on Monday alone – prompted the move into the more restrictive designation.
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Last Updated Friday, February 19, 2021 4:45PM EST Toronto and Peel Region will remain under a stay-at-home order for at least another two weeks but some restrictions will be eased in York Region next week as it enters the red zone of the province’s reopening framework, the province announced Friday. At the request of the medical officers of health in both Peel Region and Toronto, strict lockdown measures will be maintained in the two COVID-19 hot spots until at least March 8, the Ford government says. A stay-at-home order will also remain in effect for the North Bay-Parry Sound District Health Unit.