The rising infection rate has begun to dampen new year celebrations and games. The real case count is likely to be much higher. Health experts across the country have warned that COVID-19 data has been clouded by holiday delays as well as hospitals and centres reaching testing limits. Manitoba reported 825 new cases and five deaths. 10 to to allow families time to monitor for COVID-19 symptoms and book vaccination appointments. Officials said the new start date for schools is Jan. Students in Nova Scotia will get an extra week of winter vacation as part of a provincial school COVID-19 reopening plan. Newfoundland and Labrador reported a record-breaking single-day count of COVID-19 cases with 194 new infections. "If you're asymptomatic and triple vaccinated and you wear a fit-test N95 and you work in a place with HEPA filters, the risk comes down substantially." Hospitals will have to ensure other ways of mitigating risk if staff are allowed to work while infected, he added. Shortly after the Ontario government made the announcement about the shut down, medical professionals in the province took to social media to share their perspective on the execution of Ontario "emergency brake" strategy.While more of the province's health workers will likely need to isolate due to the highly infectious nature of the Omicron variant, the situation isn't as serious as it is in Quebec, he said.ĭeonandan called Quebec's move risky but noted that staffing shortages might mean other provinces will follow suit. The cost of inaction is simply too high." How are people in Ontario reacting to the announcement? "We are in a desperate race right now against an extremely, extremely aggressive and fast-moving virus. "We need more time for our vaccine program to take hold. "We need to close the gap between where we are today and where we will be with the millions of vaccines we’re expecting by June," Ford said. Indoor or outdoor sports and recreational fitness must also cease operations, with exceptions including high-performance athletes and access to physical therapy for a person with a disability. One of the main services that have been removed with this "emergency brake" is both indoor and outdoor dining at restaurants.Īlthough personal service settings, like hair salons, were expected to be able to reopen in Grey-Lockdown areas of the province on April 12, those operations are prohibited for the next four weeks. "What we are introducing is an emergency brake shutdown that allows some activities to be carried out but the lockdown, we know, with the warmer weather coming, with all that we’ve asked Ontarians to sacrifice, is too difficult to do."
"We are not going to be producing a stay-at-home order because we saw that it had tremendous ill-effect on both children and adults, and especially with the warmer weather coming, we want people to be able to go outside and enjoy the outdoors, assuming that everyone continues to follow the public health safety precautions," Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott said. That's terrible." How is this 'emergency brake' different than the stay-at-home order last year?įor the next four weeks, businesses and services will be impacted as part of the Ontario government's effort to prevent COVID-19 spread but it is not a stay-at-home order, like what happened at the end of 2020. "Imagine one of your kids or anyone's kids sitting there in ICU, a young healthy person just because they felt they were invincible. "Please, you aren't invincible," the premier said. Ford had a message directly for the younger Ontarians on Thursday. The premier stressed that there are more younger people in ICUs, something the latest modelling data from the province shows.
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