Ontario Tightens COVID-19 Restrictions, Social Gathering Limits

Ontario Tightens COVID-19 Restrictions, Social Gathering Limits
Ontario Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore attends a press briefing at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Dec. 10, 2021. Chris Young/The Canadian Press
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The Ontario government is ramping up social gathering and other COVID-19 restrictions in face of the new Omicron variant.

“Like many jurisdictions around the world, Ontario is facing a serious threat from the rapidly spreading Omicron variant. The situation continues to evolve rapidly and the modeling that was released yesterday is clear: unless action is taken quickly there could be severe consequences,” Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, announced in a press conference on Friday.