(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Canada's most populous province plans to cancel all public epidemic prevention measures in half a year
China News Service, Toronto, October 22 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) The provincial government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, announced on October 22 that from October 25, it will cancel most places that require the presentation of the new crown vaccination certificate to enter. Traffic restrictions.
The province has also taken the lead in the country to clarify that if the epidemic control situation is satisfactory, all public epidemic prevention measures including wearing masks will be cancelled in half a year.
Data map: On July 16, local time, customers were choosing desserts in a large shopping mall in Toronto, Canada.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yu Ruidong
According to the province’s restart plan, starting on the 25th, restaurants, bars, gyms, conference halls and other places that require vaccination vouchers to enter the venue will lift the number of restrictions.
If barbershops, museums, photography studios, etc. require visitors to provide vaccination vouchers, there is no limit to the number of people.
However, the new measures are temporarily not applicable to medical care facilities and supermarkets.
The province plans to further abolish the restrictions on the number of people in some high-risk places such as public baths and dance halls in mid-November; from mid-January next year, the requirement to show vaccination vouchers will be gradually eliminated; the epidemic prevention measures for public places will be cancelled by the end of March next year, and Remove the requirement for vaccination voucher.
The cumulative number of reported new coronavirus infections in Ontario currently ranks first in the country, accounting for about 35.2% of the total in Canada.
However, the number of increasing cases in the province has gradually declined recently.
The governor of the province, Doug Ford, said that the provincial government has adopted a cautious attitude towards reopening, and believes that this plan will avoid another "closure of the city" and protect the hard-won gains in the fight against the epidemic.
Although the business community generally welcomes Ontario’s restart plan, the Registered Nurses Association of the province is concerned that the new measures may pose risks to the prevention and control of the epidemic.
Some other provinces in Canada have recently introduced measures to gradually cancel public epidemic prevention restrictions.
However, the anti-epidemic pressure in a few provinces has not yet eased.
The central province of Saskatchewan stated that it will continue to transfer some patients with new coronary pneumonia to Ontario to ease the pressure on hospitals, especially intensive care units.
The Canadian National Immunization Advisory Committee updated its recommendations on the new crown vaccination on the 22nd.
The committee believes that people who develop a severe allergic reaction after the first dose of vaccine can safely undergo follow-up vaccination after consulting a specialist.
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