On Sunday, the region reported 22 new COVID-19 infections, making for 155 active cases of the virus and 709 total in the fairly rural northern public health unit. "Stay home if you have any symptoms, cut down on gatherings and encounters where you have unmasked, face-to-face close contact with people you don’t live with, and please get fully immunized and help others to do so," Loo said after issuing a Section 22 Class Order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act along with new and amended letters of instructions under the Reopening Ontario Act to pass the new changes. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano implored residents in a press release to take action to stop the spread of the virus as case numbers spike. Algoma Public Health November 15, 2021īoth Algoma Medical Officer of Health Dr. Marie businesses and organizations to reinstate recently lifted provincial capacity limits and physical distancing requirements, and strengthening masking requirements both indoors and outdoors. This was not previously the case under vaccine passport rules.Ģ. 19, anyone aged 12 and older in the region will need to show proof of vaccination if they are entering an indoor facility to actively participate in, coach, officiate, volunteer, or spectate at an organized sport (outside of at school). This means that bars and restaurants, gyms, salons and spas, indoor and outdoor recreational amenities, event spaces and a whole whack of other settings will need to ensure that people can maintain a physical distance of at least two metres from one another while on the premises.īusiness owners will also have to get stricter about enforcing existing masking policies. Marie is a part, announced on Monday that in the midst of high case counts, three new rules - or old rules, rather - are coming into effect. 10, and now another has followed suit.Īlgoma Public Health, of which the 75,000-person city of Sault Ste. One region, Greater Sudbury, already made the move to do so independently of the rest of the province a few days ago on Nov. While we've been lucky enough to shed pandemic restrictions up to and including the nixing of most capacity limits in settings where proof of vaccination is required (which is most public indoor spaces), there has been talk of reintroducing some older measures in response to rising COVID-19 case numbers.
Since June, we've been dealing with the 3-Step Roadmap to Reopen that was gradually implemented across all regions equally at the same time ( with a few rare exceptions), and prior to that, we were in a lengthy state of provincewide shutdown.
It's been a while since people in Ontario have had to deal with the coloured zones and numbered stages of yore that varied by public health region as parts of the province reopened at different speeds earlier on in the health crisis.
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