Ontario Pauses Next Step of Lifting COVID Restrictions

Ontario Pauses Next Step of Lifting COVID Restrictions
Ontario's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore attends a press briefing at Queen's Park in Toronto on Nov. 3, 2021. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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Ontario is pausing the lifting of capacity limits for remaining indoor “higher-risk settings” as a preventative measure due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, the province announced on Nov. 10.

The province says that while it has one of the lowest rates of active cases across the country, and that hospital and intensive care capacity remains stable, the effective reproduction number and percent positivity have “have increased slightly over the past week.”

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