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A stay-at-home order remains in effect in Ontario as concerns about hospital capacity continue. To add to the concern, there are now a record 420 COVID-19 patients in the province's intensive care units, new data from Critical Care Services Ontario shows.
For Ontarians struggling to reconcile their government’s order to stay at home except for essential reasons, while allowing non-essential businesses to keep operating, Premier Doug Ford has a blunt message.
Although the government called the measures that took effect Boxing Day a lockdown, the restrictions were no stronger than what had been in place for weeks in the hot zones of Toronto, Peel, York and Windsor-Essex measures that had already failed to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus there.