COVID-19 Provincial Update

Today Premier Ford announced a framework for re-opening Ontario's economy. He stressed that the framework reflects how businesses will reopen, but it is too soon to determine when that will happen. The framework for determining a timeline contains four factors:

1. Virus spread and containment: requires consistent two-to-four week decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases.
2. Health system capacity: including access to ventilators and ongoing availability of PPE.
3. Public health system capacity: Requires that approximately 90% of new COVID-19 contacts are being reached by local public health officials within one day.
4. Incident tracking capacity: requires ongoing testing of suspected cases, particularly in vulnerable populations.