BRACEBRIDGE, ON – The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, is moving nine public health regions to new levels in the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework (the "Framework"). This includes activating an "emergency brake" in Thunder Bay District Health Unit and Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit to move the regions to Grey-Lockdown to immediately interrupt transmission and contain community spread. Decisions were made in consultation with the local medical officers of health and are based on the trends in public health indicators and local context and conditions.
Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit region will move from their current level in the Framework to the Grey-Lockdown effective Monday, March 1, 2021 at 12:01 a.m.
For more information please see the full Media Release: https://bracebridge.civicweb.net/document/25603