What you want to know at a glance
Starting Friday in Ottawa, Toronto and the Peel region, meetings will be limited to 25 people, while indoor meetings may not involve more than 10 people, Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday.
This includes personal social occasions such as parties and barbecues, but does not increase the occasions or gatherings that are held at businesses or services such as bars or restaurants, said Prime Minister Doug Ford, who announced the new restrictions Thursday.
Ford said illegal meeting hosts would now be fined a minimum of $10,000, while participants can now be fined $750 each.
“It’s a serious scenario for other people. We’ll throw the eBook at you if you break the rules,” Ford said. “We cannot allow some rule violators to oppose all the difficult paintings and progress that other people in Ontario have made over the more than six months. “
Ford’s idea that those rules of non-compliance with COVID-19 regulations were “fewer fries than a Happy Meal,” saying they “happen there, know the regulations and brazenly forget about them. “
Dr. David Williams, the province’s leading health medical officer, said collection restrictions can also be implemented elsewhere in the provinces if necessary.
For anyone looking for an escape, indoor/outdoor collections cannot be done to circumvent the new collection limits, the province said in a press release.
“These are not cumulative and meetings of 35 other people (25 outdoors and 10 inside) are not allowed. “
Minister of Health Christine Elliott indicated disorders with the province’s testing regime and said the province is in the process of finalizing plans to develop laboratory tests and procedures with a target of 50,000 tests consistent with the day over the next two weeks.
On Thursday in Ottawa, Nepean’s MPP and provincial Minister of Sports and Culture announced that 3 “ephemeral” centers would be announced for Ottawa “starting tomorrow. “
He noted that “they are being finalized. “
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In another regard, Ford also announced that his government had enacted a law to enact a residential rental freeze in 2021 and to make the ban on evictions from advertising tenants for eligible companies for Canada’s Emergency Commercial Rental Assistance program larger.
Ontario reported 293 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, 39 in Ottawa.
Last week saw an expansion of cases at the provincial point in the 200s and a minimum of 300. At the local level, the number of cases has been recovered up to a maximum of 60 and a minimum of 27 in the last seven days.
Ottawa Public Health publishes its own statistical summary, possibly deferring knowledge of the province in the early afternoon.
Ontario is introducing strict new limits to 3-point social gatherings amid an increase in COVID-19 cases, a government source told Reuters on Thursday.
A draft plan under discussion would reduce the duration of indoor meetings to 10 out of 50, and meetings from 100 to 25, the source said, adding that the limits would apply to Toronto, neighboring Peel and Ottawa. Approved.
The province reported that three other people died after contracting COVID-19, and the number of active cases across the province is 2,427, including 53 patients hospitalized for COVID-19, 21 of whom are in intensive care and 12 in fans.
According to the provincial monitoring website COVID-19 in schools, there are now 15 schools in Ottawa with at least one case shown: nine schools in the French Catholic Council, 3 on the French public council and 3 on the English-speaking Catholic council. .
Fellowes High School in Pembroke ordered it closed on Wednesday after 3 positive cases of COVID-19 among school staff. The local public fitness workplace conducts extensive testing and the school will only reopen with public physical fitness approval.
In eastern Ontario, the Renfrew County and District Health Office and the Eastern Ontario Health Office reported two new cases on the last day, while Leeds, Grenville and Lanark reported one. No new cases reported in Hastings Prince Edward or Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox
Local
Add the call from new Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole to the list of other people frustrated by multi-hour queues for COVID-19 testing in Ottawa.
Durham’s member took his family circle to a check after a staff member he was traveling with and the circle of close-in-contact relatives tested positive for COVID-19.
They queued for hours at an uns specified center in Ottawa to be returned when they reached their capacity.
While they were presented with an appointment for checks on Friday through PAHO, the O’Toole used a check formula for MPs and their families in Gatineau on Thursday morning.
According to a spokesman for the Office of the President, the House of Commons team that manages the aptitude of parliamentarians has added more as the pandemic evolves, “including, exceptionally, the detection of COVID-19. “
“In recent months, the maximum number of members has been in Ottawa, however, as increases are requested, the on-call doctor can set up COVID-19 screening for members and their families. Prices for this service are borne by the House. “
As a result of this experience, O’Toole nodded to the Prime Minister and the federal liberal government for approving other COVID-19 testing methods.
After a few confusing hours, we now know that the Brewer Assessment Centre’s opening hours have been extended to provide COVID-19 testing between 8:30 a. m. 8:00 p. m. daily.
At a press conference Wednesday, Mayor Jim Watson announced that the center’s opening hours would be 7:30 a. m. 9 p. m. , from now on. Later, ottawa Hospital (which manages the evaluation center) sent an email correcting those hours from 8:45 am to 7:30 pm A few hours later, the HO tweeted another update: Brewer’s opening hours will actually be from 8:30 a. m. to 8 p. m. each and every day.
“Unfortunately, the hours of service were replaced after they first communicated to the mayor’s office,” L’HO said. “Since then, we have shown the service plan. “
Meanwhile, shortly after 11 a. m. , Queensway Carleton Hospital tweeted the news that the COVID-1nine care clinic on Moodie Drive had reached its capacity for the day and would not settle for further visits. am at 3:30 p. m.
Long waiting hours for a COVID-19 in Ottawa have caught the eye and anger in recent days.
Ottawa Public Health reported that the number of COVID-19 institutional outbreaks increased to 21:12 in LTC households, 3 in nursing homes, one in organization care facilities, and five in day care centers or camps.
Facilities that have experienced the latest outbreaks include the City View Center, Rainbow Beetle Child Care Center and Garry J SLD House. Armstrong.
With 39 new instances in Ottawa, there are 420 active instances across the city, according to OPS. This includes 12 other people in the hospital, adding one in extensive care. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 3486 Ottavios tested positive for COVID- 19 and 273 have died.
The Ottawa Regulations state that the era of caution is over and that others can expect to be fined if they are trapped without a mask within a public space.
Officers “will continue to exercise discretion,” the service says, but fines will be issued when a warning is deemed sufficient or repeat offenders are found.
The penalties are $ 240 for others who are not exempt for other fitness reasons and $ 490 for businesses or genuine real estate operators who do not comply. The fines come with a surcharge for the victim.
⚠️The precautionary phase of the Temporary Mandatory Mask Regulations is over. Officers will continue to exercise their discretion, however, fines will be issued in cases where a warning is deemed sufficient or when repeat offenders are found.
Fourteen thousand patients in the Champlain region, which includes Ottawa, have experienced surgical delays since the onset of the pandemic, a delay that hospitals and surgical groups are looking for in addition to ongoing procedures.
Currently, care groups review the case and reschedule patients in order of precedence based on their needs.
Local hospitals say they are adding more capacity and are working with the province “to identify opportunities where more capacity can be added to fill the ongoing backing of surgical activities. “
quebec
There have been 251 new COVID-19s in Quebec in the last 24 hours.
Three new deaths have been reported, one on the last day, while the other two occurred between 10 and 15 September.
There are six other people in the hospital with COVID-19, for a total of 136, of whom 29 are in intensive care.
The Ottawa region reported 18 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, raising the total number of cases shown in the region from the start of the pandemic to 1,057, while the regional death toll of COVID-19 remains at 34.
Meanwhile, a large-scale verification operation was conducted thursday at a Quebec City elementary school that was the site of a COVID-19 outbreak. At least 305 students and staff from the Sans-Frontiere school in Quebec City are expected to be monitored until Thursday night, the local fitness authority said.
By five o’clock in the afternoon, on Wednesday, the tests were already underway, fitness officials did not specify how many cases had been confirmed.
At this time, consideration is being given to the closure of a school.
-With Postmedia, Reuters and The Canadian Press
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