Ontario Has No Immediate Plans to Drop Vaccine Passports, Masking: Health Minister

Ontario Has No Immediate Plans to Drop Vaccine Passports, Masking: Health Minister
Christine Elliott, Ontario's Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, speaks regarding the easing of restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Jan. 20, 2022. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
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Ontario’s health minister said today that the province will not immediately follow other jurisdictions in dropping its vaccine passport system, while the mask mandate will also remain in place “for some time to come.”

Christine Elliott said that the province will lift its Directive 2, which ordered hospitals to halt non-urgent surgeries, “in the coming days,” and begin a “gradual and cautious” resumption of non-urgent or non-emergent surgeries and procedures.