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Southwestern Public Health Moving Into the Yellow Protect Zone

Friday, 13 November 2020 at 15:05

Ontario has updated the COVID-19 Framework with new stricter thresholds and this means that Southwestern Public Health will move into the Yellow-Protect zone.

ONTARIO - Ontario is updating the COVID-19 Framework with new stricter thresholds. 

Effective immediately the Government is updating the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework, by lowering the thresholds for each level in the framework. These necessary updates will help limit the spread of COVID-19 while keeping schools open, maintaining health system capacity, protecting the province's most vulnerable, and avoiding broader lockdowns.

The latest modelling shows that if the number of new cases continues to grow at its current rate, the province could register up to 6,500 new cases per day by mid-December. Within the next two weeks the province will likely exceed its intensive care threshold of 150 beds, under any potential scenario.

Based on these new thresholds, the following public health unit regions would be moved to the following levels in the framework:

Red-Control:

Hamilton Public Health Services
Halton Region Public Health
Toronto Public Health
York Region Public Health

Orange-Restrict:

Brant County Health Unit
Durham Region Health Department
Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Niagara Region Public Health
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health
Region of Waterloo Public Health

Yellow-Protect:

Huron Perth Public Health
Middlesex-London Health Unit
Public Health Sudbury & Districts
Southwestern Public Health
Huron Perth Public Health
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit

Please visit Ontario.ca/COVID19 for the full list of public health region classifications that will come into effect as of Monday, November 16, 2020 at 12:01 a.m. Toronto Public Health will move into the framework on Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 12:01 a.m.

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