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Ontario Premier Doug Ford implored Ontarians to stay home, avoid gatherings, and follow other pandemic public health measures “the best and only defence” available against COVID-19 in the absence of universal vaccine access and warned that if they continue to be ignored, the ongoing province-wide shutdown won’t end as scheduled at the end of January, and Ontario will have to consider more extreme measures.
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The province reported another record-breaking tally of new COVID-19 cases on Friday. While the 24-hour total of 4,249 infections includes approximately 450 cases attributed to a data upload delay at Toronto Public Health, it would still easily surpass the previous record high (3,519 cases, reported Thursday), if those Toronto cases were removed from the total.