FULL LIST OF WHAT'S REOPENING IN ONTARIO AND WHEN AS COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS GRADUALLY LIFT
Thursday, January 20, 2022
at 12:14:48 PM The Ontario government has announced it will slowly ease public health measures that have been in place to curb the spread of the highly-contagious Omicron variant.
The province detailed the reopening will take place over the course of three months with 21 days between each of the three stages.
January 31, 2022
• Social gatherings will be increased to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors.
• Sporting events, concert venues and theatres will be able to operate at 50 per cent seated capacity or 500 people, whichever is less.
• Restaurants, bars and other food or drink establishments without dance facilities will be able to operate with 50 per cent capacity indoors.
• Retailers, including grocery stores and pharmacies, as well as shopping malls, can operate with 50 per cent capacity indoors.
• Non-spectator areas of sports and recreational fitness facilities, including gyms, can operate with 50 per cent capacity indoors.
• Movie theatres, meeting rooms and event spaces can operate with 50 per cent capacity indoors.
• Recreational amenities and amusement parks, including water parks, can operate with 50 per cent capacity indoors.
• Museums, galleries, aquariums, zoos and similar attractions, as well as casinos, bingo halls and other gaming establishments can open at 50 per cent capacity indoors.
• Indoor religious services, rites, or ceremonies can take place at 50 per cent capacity.
• The province said enhanced proof of vaccination, and other requirements would continue to apply in existing settings.
February, 21, 2022
• Social gathering limits will increase to 25 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.
• Capacity limits will be lifted in indoor public settings where proof of vaccination is required.
• Spectator capacity at sporting events, concert venues, and theatres will increase to 50 per cent capacity.
• Capacity is limited in most remaining indoor public settings where proof of vaccination is not required to the number of people that can maintain two metres of physical distance.
• Indoor religious services, rites or ceremonies are limited to the number of people that can maintain two metres of physical distance, with no limit if proof of vaccination is required.
• Indoor capacity limits will be increased to 25 per cent in the remaining higher-risk settings where proof of vaccination is required, including nightclubs, wedding receptions in meeting or event spaces where there is dancing, as well as bathhouses and sex clubs.
• Enhanced proof of vaccination, and other requirements would continue to apply in existing settings.
March 14, 2022
• Social gathering limits will be increased to 50 people indoors with no limits for outdoor gatherings.
• Capacity limits will be lifted in all indoor public settings. Proof of vaccination will be maintained in existing settings in addition to other regular measures.
• Remaining capacity limits on religious services, rites, or ceremonies will be lifted.
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