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BlueJay2020on Mar 19, 2021 8:12pm
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Good news! From Globe abd Mail:
Ontario will permit outdoor dining in Toronto and Peel Region while also allowing more people to gather indoors at restaurants in other areas, even as health officials urged caution in the face of more contagious and deadly COVID-19 variants.
The move to loosen rules for restaurants and bars, which take effect Saturday at 12:01 a.m., was made as Premier Doug Ford announced that Ontario is opening up vaccine appointments to adults 75 and over starting Monday.
The decision by Mr. Ford’s cabinet to allow outdoor dining in the grey lockdown zones – which include Toronto, Peel, Lambton, Sudbury and Thunder Bay – was accompanied by a surprise move to expand capacity limits for restaurants in the red and orange zones.
The changes mean that restaurants in the red zone will go from a 10-person maximum indoors to 50-per-cent capacity or a maximum of 50 people. In orange, the previous 50-person maximum indoors goes to 100. The government says patrons can only dine with members of their households, unless they live alone. Ontario also recently relaxed capacity limits for churches and religious ceremonies in lockdown regions.