Ontario Preparing New Lockdown Measures, Confirms More U.K. Variant Cases

Ontario Preparing New Lockdown Measures, Confirms More U.K. Variant Cases
Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force meeting at Queen's Park in Toronto on Dec. 4, 2020. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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OTTAWA—Ontario is set to invoke new measures today to try to get control over the surging COVID-19 pandemic.

The province is considering further reducing in-person gathering limits, cutting the opening hours for essential stores like groceries and pharmacies and restricting construction and manufacturing to essential business only.