Ontario Premier Ford officially announces 4-week provincewide “shutdown”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford officially announced this afternoon that the whole province of Ontario will be heading into Grey-Lockdown zone for four weeks starting the morning of Saturday, April 3rd at 12:01 a.m.

LOCKDOWN: Ontario reportedly heading towards another month-long lockdown

Ontario is reportedly heading into another 4-week lockdown starting this weekend “to try and curb the rise in COVID-19 cases across the province,” several sources told 680 News, who first reported this Wednesday.

Every region of the province will be placed into Grey-Lockdown zone beginning 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning.

Ontario returning 27 public health regions to new COVID response framework

The Ontario government is transitioning twenty-seven public health regions out of the shutdown and into a revised and strengthened COVID-19 Response Framework. The remaining four regions will remain in the shutdown with a stay-at-home order.

VISSER: How much are we willing to abandon for the sake of security?

Are workplace inspections becoming the movie “Pre-Crime” but with today’s COVID twist?

How much are we willing to abandon for the sake of security?

For Diverge writer Broderick Visser, It’s nothing.

Lockdown incoming for Boxing Day – 2.38 hospitalized patients with Covid per hospital in Ontario

Currently, there are 915 hospitalized in Ontario with Covid. There are roughly 384 hospitals in Ontario. This means that per hospital (numbers vary at each hospital) there are an estimated 2.38 patients in Ontario with Covid per hospital – where’s this number in the media reporting? In addition, Ontario has long struggled with having enough hospital beds. Ford even ran on ending hallway medicine…