Sept. 25, 2020:The province orders strip clubs to close while also ordering restaurants, bars and other food and drink businesses to stop serving alcohol at 11 p.m and close between midnight and 5 a.m. Sept. 25, 2020:Pharmacies in the GTA, Huntsville and Ottawa areas begin to offer coronavirus testing to at-risk, asymptomatic people by appointment only. Oct. 23, 2020: Ontarios independent commission into long-term care releases early recommendations for the Ford government to implement during the second wave of the pandemic. Apr. Apr. His wife becomes the second case and begins self-isolating the following day. Jan. 23, 2021: Middlesex-London Health Unit reports that a teen has suffered a COVID-19-related death. A timeline of events in Canada's fight against COVID-19 March 18: Canada. The Ontario government announced Thursday that a province-wide, four-week "emergency brake" lockdown will go into effect Saturday, April 3. 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The government says the extensions give it the ability to address ongoing risks and effects of the virus and to ensure measures remain in place to protect the population. 19, 2021: A hospital system servicing York Regionsays six people were mistakenly injected with saline instead of aCOVID-19vaccine. June 14, 2020:Ontario announces it has conducted it has now conducted more than a million tests for the novel coronavirus. This fits the most internationally accepted definition of what constitutes a lockdown. We went to find out, Toronto seniors lose $16K, left with large hole in roof in door-to-door scam, Thousands of people to face planned power outage this weekend. [1] By April 2020, about half of the world's population was under some form of lockdown, with more than 3.9billion people in more than 90 countries or territories having been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments. Nov. 6, 2020:The province releases an updated list of which areas are placed in which zones in its new coronavirus system. [47] An April 2020 poll found that 93% of Americans voluntarily chose to only leave home when necessary, regardless of legal restrictions. Mar. On 24 March 2020, the entire 1.3 billion population of India was ordered to stay at home during its lockdown, making it the largest of the pandemic. Government says that it cut back on administering doses over holidays to prevent staffing shortages in hospitals and long-term-care homes. Ontario will go into a strict province-wide lockdown on Dec. 26, forcing nearly all non-essential businesses to close. As of October 2021, the city of Melbourne, Australia, and certain cities in Peru and Chile spent the most cumulative days in lockdown over separate periods, although measures varied between these countries.[535][536]. All publicly-funded schools in northern public health regions are allowed to resume in-person learning on Jan. 11. A day later, hardware and safety supply stores can open. [527], Countries and territories around the world enforced lockdowns of varying stringency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.