Ontario Premier Doug Ford is poised to announce whether Toronto, Peel Region, and York Region will face stricter COVID-19 measures or even a lockdown as the count of new COVID-19 cases continues to climb higher.
Ford’s cabinet meets each Friday to consider recommendations from Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health on changing the color-coded restriction levels for each public health unit.
As the week unfolded, Ford sent clear signals that stronger measures are looming for three hardest-hit regions, all of which are currently in the red zone, one step short of lockdown.
Peel is by far the hardest-hit region in the province, currently seeing 195 new cases weekly per 100,000 population – nearly five times higher than the province’s threshold of 40 for the red-zone restrictions.
Toronto and York Region have also seen steady growth in COVID-19 infections since early September, despite the imposition of stricter pandemic measures along the way.
The province has not specified the infection rate threshold that would trigger a lockdown, nor has it stated exactly what would get locked down.
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