Restaurants, bars, and other non-essential businesses in most of the Hastings Prince Edward region should be back open by Wednesday.
According to the Canadian Press, quoting an anonymous senior government source, Premier Doug Ford will announce a phased reopening of Ontario Monday.
While the stay-at-home order will remain in effect, businesses will be allowed to open with restrictions in four health unit regions with very low COVID-19 transmission rates on Wednesday.
Included in the four are Hastings Prince Edward and Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington health unit regions. Northumberland County and the Peterborough area could reopen the following week.
Toronto, and Peel and York regions would reopen on February 22.
It’s expected the four health unit regions reopening Wednesday will be placed in the province’s Green-Prevent COVID-19 response zone.
For more detail on the reopening phase, see below:
Green – Prevent
Epidemiology
- Weekly incidence rate is less than 10 per 100,000
- Percent positivity is less than 0.5%
- Effective reproduction number (Rt) is less than 1
- Outbreak trends/ observations
- Level of community transmission and non-epi linked cases stable
Health system capacity
- Hospital and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity adequate
Public health system capacity
- Case and contact follow-up within 24 hours adequate
- Limits for certain organized public events and social gatherings such as functions, parties, dinners, gatherings, barbeques or wedding receptions held in private residences, backyards, or parks, where physical distancing can be maintained:
- 10 people indoors
- 25 people outdoors
- Limits for organized public events and gatherings in staffed businesses and facilities, where physical distancing can be maintained:
- 50 people indoors
- 100 people outdoors
- Limits for religious services rites or ceremonies, including wedding services and funeral services, where physical distancing can be maintained (applies in any venue other than a private dwelling):
- 30% capacity of the room indoors
- 100 people outdoors
