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Vaccination requirements for restaurants, gyms and other public settings in Ontario may soon be lifting, but mandates for staff and even visitors in some hospitals will likely be in place much longer.
Hospitals in Waterloo Region and Wellington County won't start scheduling non-urgent surgeries and procedures Monday, saying they're still dealing with "significant pressure" from the latest wave of COVID-19 cases.
Across the three regional hospitals, only 18 beds remain available and some of those are also currently unusable as they're in outbreak areas
Hospital leaders provided a somber picture of what is currently happening on the frontlines Tuesday morning, worried about what the Omicron wave will do to them in the coming weeks.
Administrators concerned with hospital staff burning out as the community gets ready to deal with the Omicron variant