Toronto and Peel Region joined the rest of Ontario in Stage 3 of the province's COVID-19 recovery plan, while the Ministry of Health reported an uptick in new daily cases.
The province confirmed an additional 134 cases of the illness this morning after two straight days of fewer than 100.
The new cases are concentrated in Ottawa, Windsor-Essex, Peel and Toronto. Meanwhile, Southwestern Public Health, which serves the counties of Oxford and Elgin and the City of St. Thomas, reported 19 additional cases.
Ontario has now confirmed a total of 39,209 infections of the novel coronavirus since the outbreak began in late January. Of those, about 89.5 per cent are resolved. Another 168 cases were marked resolved in today's update.
Despite the relative increase in new daily cases, the number of active cases, 1,360, is at its lowest since infections peaked in the province.
The number of patients in Ontario hospitals with confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus is also at its lowest, 78, since the Ministry of Health began reporting hospitalization data.
The province's official COVID-19 death toll grew by three in today's report, and now sits at 2,775. A CBC News count based on data from public health units puts the real toll at 2,806.
New Stage 3 orders for bars, restaurants
Meanwhile, residents of Toronto and Peel Region can now eat inside a restaurant and catch a movie in a theatre starting today, though they still have to follow physical distancing rules and other health measures.
Stage 3 allows most businesses and public spaces to reopen.
Toronto city council has enacted a series of additional health measures beyond those set by the province in preparation for today's change, including capacity and table size limits for indoor dining in restaurants.
The Ministry of Health also announced amended Stage 3 orders for bars and restaurants across Ontario this morning.
The orders include the following measures:
- All patrons will be required to be seated at all times, in both indoor and outdoor areas, with limited exceptions.
- Bars and restaurants (and also tour boat operators) will be required to keep client logs for 30 days and to disclose the client logs to the medical officer of health or an inspector under the Health Protection and Promotion Act on request.
"These additional measures will help reduce close contact between individuals in these settings, and support case and contact tracing, thereby limiting the spread of COVID-19," said Health Minister Christine Elliott.
Windsor-Essex is now the only area still in Stage 2, with health officials saying they want more data before further loosening restrictions.
The region has been grappling with ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks on farms and said earlier this week that numbers have been on the rise in the city of Windsor.
Premier Doug Ford is scheduled to hold his daily COVID-19 briefing beginning at 1 p.m. Ford's office says he will be joined by Peter Bethlenfalvy, president of the treasury board, and Dr. Barbara Yaffe, associate chief medical officer of health.
You will be able to watch the news conference live in this story.
COVID-19 exposure app available now
Residents of Ontario can download a new voluntary app that can tell them whether they have been around someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 over the previous two weeks.
But while government officials say the goal is to make the COVID Alert contact notification app available across the country and are in talks with other provinces, they could not say when it will be available outside Ontario.
Residents can download the app to their mobile phones, which will use Bluetooth technology to exchange signals with nearby phones. If someone tests positive for COVID, their public health authority will give them a one-time key to enter in the app. The app will then send out notices to every phone that has been within two metres for at least 15 minutes of the phone of the person who tested positive over the previous 14 days if they, too, have downloaded the app.
Those who receive a notification will also receive instructions on what to do next.
Officials say the more people who download the app, the more effective it will be and stressed that it is a notification app, not a contact-tracing app.
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