On April 7, 2021, the Province of Ontario enacted a new
provincial emergency and stay-at-home order effective at 12:01 am
on April 8, 2021. The Government made this enactment less than a
week after Premier Doug Ford implemented a new province-wide
COVID-19 shutdown beginning on April 3, 2021. These new shutdown
measures directly respond to the sharp rise in COVID-19 infection
rates and hospitalizations since the last government-mandated
shutdown ended in Toronto, Peel, and North Bay Parry Sound District
public health regions on March 8, 2021.
The new shutdown is expected to continue for at least four weeks
and calls for various broadranging restrictions on business
activities in the Province of Ontario. During this new shutdown,
the COVID-19 Response Framework (colour-coded zones) will be
paused.
