Ontario removes capacity limits allowing for Santa Clause parades, other outdoor public events
TORONTO – Ontario is eradicating capability limits at outside, organized public occasions akin to Remembrance Day ceremonies and Santa Claus parades.
Some cities, together with Toronto, have already opted to not do a standard Santa Claus parade with crowds this yr.
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A spokeswoman for Well being Minister Christine Elliott says outside capability limits are additionally lifted in most different sectors, akin to gala’s and festivals, outside areas of museums and zoos, and ski hills in addition to different outside leisure facilities.
Alexandra Hilkene notes that the danger of COVID-19 transmission is considerably decrease outdoors.
Out of doors social gatherings are nonetheless restricted to 100 folks and outside capability limits at nightclubs stay in place.
Different regulatory adjustments embody eradicating a requirement that automobiles keep two metres aside at drive-in or drive-thru venues.
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