Premier Doug Ford has announced that the province will officially begin stage one of its three-phase reopening plan later this week, despite reservations being expressed by Ontario’s top public health official about whether we are ready.
Ford made the comment during his daily briefing at Queen’s Park, noting that an announcement with more details will be made Thursday.
The province’s own framework calls for a “consistent” two-to-four week decline in new cases before phase one can begin. Ford has consistently deferred to the advice of public health officials in guiding his response to the COVID-19 pandemic but on Tuesday he said that we will “hit stage one on Thursday,” a statement that is hard to reconcile with Williams comments.
The province has previously said that the first phase of its reopening plan will begin with the opening of some outdoor spaces as well "select workplaces" that can "immediately meet or modify operations" to adhere to public health directives. He said that the province now has 80 labour guidelines that businesses will need to follow as they reopen and that “now is the time to prepare.”
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