The Provincial government just announced their easing of restrictions starting January 31st and will allow further lifting in 21 day steps
With key public health and health care indicators starting to show signs of improvement as a result of additional public health measures enacted on January 5, our government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, today released details of steps to cautiously and gradually ease public health measures, starting on January 31, 2022.
In the absence of concerning trends in public health and health care indicators, Ontario will follow a cautious and phased approach to lifting public health measures, with 21 days between each step.
Effective January 31, 2022 at 12:01 a.m., Ontario will begin the process of gradually easing restrictions while maintaining protective measures, including:
·
Increasing social gathering limits
to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors.
·
Increasing or maintaining capacity
limits at 50 per cent in indoor public settings, including but not limited to:
o Restaurants,
bars and other food or drink establishments without dance facilities;
o Retailers
(including grocery stores and pharmacies);
o Shopping
malls;
o Non-spectator areas of
sports and recreational fitness facilities, including gyms;
o Cinemas;
o Meeting and
event spaces;
o Museums,
galleries, aquariums, zoos and similar attractions; and
o Casinos,
bingo halls and other gaming establishments
o Religious
services, rites, or ceremonies.
·
Allowing
spectator areas of facilities such as sporting events, concert venues and
theatres to operate at 50 per cent seated capacity or 500 people, whichever is
less.
Proof
of vaccination requirements would continue to apply in existing settings.
Effective February 21, 2022,
Ontario will lift public health measures, including:
- Increasing
social gathering limits to 25 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.
- Removing
capacity limits in indoor public settings where proof of vaccination is
required, including but not limited to restaurants, indoor sports and
recreational facilities, cinemas, as well as other settings that choose to
opt-in to proof of vaccination requirements.
- Permitting
spectator capacity at sporting events, concert venues, and theatres at 50
per cent capacity.
- Limiting
capacity in most remaining indoor public settings where proof of
vaccination is not required to the number of people that can maintain two
metres of physical distance.
- Indoor
religious services, rites or ceremonies limited to the number that can
maintain two metres of physical distance, with no limit if proof of
vaccination is required.
- Increasing
indoor capacity limits to 25 per cent in the remaining higher-risk
settings where proof of vaccination is required, including nightclubs,
wedding receptions in meeting or event spaces where there is dancing, as
well as bathhouses and sex clubs.
Enhanced proof of vaccination,
and other requirements would continue to apply in existing settings.
March 14, 2022
Effective March 14, 2022,
Ontario will take additional steps to ease public health measures, including:
- Lifting
capacity limits in all indoor public settings. Proof of vaccination will
be maintained in existing settings in addition to other regular measures.
- Lifting
remaining capacity limits on religious services, rites, or ceremonies.
- Increase
social gathering limits to 50 people indoors with no limits for outdoor
gatherings.
To
manage COVID-19 over the long-term, local and regional responses by public
health units may be deployed based on local context and conditions.
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