While these restrictions are necessary to reduce contacts and the spread of COVID-19, they must be implemented alongside enhanced supports to protect frontline workers and disproportionately affected communities. The City acknowledges how challenging and difficult this is for individuals, families, businesses, and the mental and economic health of the city. To avoid future or prolonged restrictions following the strict measures announced today, it is important that Torontonians follow the advice and orders of public health experts to protect the healthcare system and to save lives. Non-essential travel outside of one’s own community is strongly discouraged.Ĭity of Toronto parks are open, and residents are encouraged to use them for exercise, including walking, but to do so only with those they live with. Outdoor organized public events or social gatherings are limited to a maximum of 10 people. Essential support workers and emergency repairpersons are exempt. Having family or friends who are not members of your household in your home for a social visit is prohibited under provincial orders. By reducing the number of people who are out in the community, we reduce the number of potential contacts and exposures to COVID-19, which will drive down case counts. Residents of Toronto are strongly encouraged to stay home, except for essential travel, such as groceries and other necessities, like medicine healthcare appointments exercise school child care and going to work. closing all hair salons, barber shops, nail salons and tattoo parlours.closing all indoor gyms and recreational programs, with some City-operated community centres open for community supports, such as food banks.limiting capacity of big box and essential business to 50 per cent capacity.closing all non-essential retail, except for curbside pick up large retailers with a grocery section can remain open at 50 per cent capacity.closing malls, except for essential businesses. Take-out, drive-thru and delivery options remain available and are strongly encouraged to support local businesses closing all outdoor dining and patios.Today’s announcement adds further restrictions in Toronto, including: 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, including continued closure of indoor dining closure of meeting and event spaces continued closure of casinos and bingo halls and closure of indoor fitness classes. Toronto entered the “Red – Control” zone of the provincial framework on November 14, with additional restrictions by order of Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health under S. As part of Toronto Public Health’s ongoing data updates, information on deaths of people experiencing homelessness is also now available online. Case status data can be found on the City’s reporting platform. To date, there have been 1,515 COVID-19 deaths in Toronto. In total, 30,838 people have recovered from COVID-19. There are 36,821 cases of COVID-19 in the city, an increase of 420 new cases today. The City of Toronto supports all efforts to reduce and eliminate the transmission of COVID-19 in the city to protect the healthcare system and save lives. “ All of our members, from builders to renovators to suppliers, will continue to focus on public and worker safety while ensuring that thousands of families get the keys to the homes they have been waiting for across Ontario.The Province of Ontario today announced further measures in Toronto and Peel Region to slow the spread of COVID-19, effective this Monday, November 23. We support increased inspection and enforcement and are utilizing the extended construction hours to stagger work and increase social distancing on projects. Across Ontario, industry members have been continuously enhancing their health and safety and COVID-19 protocols. “With these new restrictions, the Ontario government continues to make public safety the priority. “We all want to be safe at home and at work,” said Joe Vaccaro, CEO of the OHBA, in a statement. The provincewide shutdown is a necessary, the release states, adding a llowing the residential and commercial construction industry to continue working will mean “ once we do return to a semblance of normalcy later in 2021, we will not have exacerbated the housing supply crisis in an already undersupplied market. Under the new measures, construction activities and supporting services for new building may continue with enhanced protocols and inspections in place and sales centres for new developments must move to virtual and to appointment only. W hile construction is permitted to continue, the industry recognizes the immense responsibility that comes with an essential workplace designation. TORONTO - The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) and the Ontario Home Builders’ Association (OHBA) say they are supportive of the provincial government implementing more restrictions to s low the spread of COVID-19 announced today (Dec.
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