Ontario is leaving in place many public health and workplace measures with the expiration of the Stay At Home Order.
The province enacted the measure on April 7 as a result of an alarming surge in case numbers and hospitalizations.
Officials have indicated the plan is to start the Roadmap To Reopen plan the week of June 14.
Until that happens here’s what remains in place:
- Indoor gatherings limited to households only, outdoor gatherings up to five people
- Essential retail locations can maintain 25 per cent capacity
- Non-essential retail restricted to curbside pickup and delivery
- Parks and campgrounds can be used for the day only
- Short-term rentals allowed for those who need housing
If you have another residence, you are allowed to travel to it but you can’t host someone from another household unless they live alone or are a caregiver.
The province is also not renewing the Residential Evictions order however other orders currently in effect under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act have been extended until June 16, 2021.
Step One
- 60 per cent of adults with one dose of the vaccine
- Outdoor gatherings up to 10 people
- Outdoor dining up to 4 people per table
- Outdoor fitness classes, personal training and sports training up to 10 people
- Essential retail at 25 per cent capacity and can sell all goods (including discount and big box)
- Non-essential retail at 15 per cent capacity
- Retail stores in malls closed unless the stores have a street facing entrance
- Outdoor religious services, rites and ceremonies with capacity limited to permit 2 metres’ physical distancing
- Horse racing and motor speedways without spectators
- Outdoor horse riding
- Outdoor pools, splash pads and wading pools with capacity limited to permit 2 metres’ physical distancing
- Outdoor zoos, landmarks, historic sites, and botanical gardens with capacity limits
- Campsites, campgrounds and short-term rentals; and
- Ontario Parks
Step Two
- 70 per cent of adults with one dose, 20 per cent with two doses
- Outdoor gatherings up to 25 people
- Indoor gatherings up to 5 people and other restrictions
- Outdoor dining up to 6 people per table
- Outdoor sports and leagues
- Overnight camps
- Outdoor meeting and event spaces with capacity limits
- Non-essential retail at 25 per cent capacity, essential retail at 50 per cent capacity
- Personal care services where face coverings can be worn at all times with capacity limits
- Outdoor cinemas and performing arts with capacity limits
- Horse racing and motor speedways for spectators with capacity limits
- Outdoor tour and guide services with capacity limits
- Indoor religious services, rites or ceremony gatherings at 15 per cent capacity
- Public libraries with capacity limits
- Outdoor waterparks and amusement parks with capacity limits
- Fairs and rural exhibitions with capacity limits
Step Three
- 70 to 80 per cent of adults with one dose, 25 per cent with two doses
- Outdoor gatherings with larger capacity limits
- Indoor gatherings with larger capacity limits and other restrictions
- Indoor dining with capacity limits
- Indoor sports and recreational fitness facilities with capacity limits
- Indoor meeting and event spaces with capacity limits
- Essential and non-essential retail capacity expanded
- Personal care services with capacity expanded and other restrictions
- Indoor cinemas and performing arts facilities with capacity limits
- Indoor and outdoor religious services, rites or ceremony gatherings with capacity limited to permit 2 metres’ physical distancing
- Indoor museums and art galleries with capacity limits
- Indoor zoos, aquariums, waterparks and amusement parks with capacity limits
- Casinos and bingo halls with capacity limits
- Other outdoor activities from Step Two permitted to operate indoors
