Article content Ontario will go into a province-wide, four-week shutdown starting Saturday just after midnight, as cases surge and hospitalizations spike due to COVID-19. Premier Doug Ford on Thursday called it a difficult decision, but that the variants of concern (VOC) meant that the province was “fighting a new enemy, this is a new pandemic,.” Locally, Dr. Paul Roumeliotis — the Eastern Ontario Health Unit’s medical officer of health — in his regularly-scheduled media briefing, said that even though a stay-at-home order was not issued, and no curfew implemented, residents shouldn’t be going anywhere unless they absolutely have to. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.