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Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health highlightes the continued decline in the pandemic indications including hostpitalizations. The Province of Ontario is shifting towards a long-term approach that is focused on living with COVID.

Effective March 21:

Masking requirements will be removed in most settings including: schools, restaurants and bars, gyms, movie theatres, shopping centres, etc.

Remaining measures in schools including cohorts and on-site symptom screening are removed.

 Remaining regulatory requirements for businesses are removed, including passive screening and having a COVID-19 safety plan.

Effective April 27:

Mask requirements are removed in all remaining settings.

All remaining orders under the Reopening Ontario Act expire.

Remaining health-care directives are lifted, however, the government will still direct health-care workers to wear personal protective equipment

After this date, masks will not be mandatory but will be encouraged and highly recommended for those who are immunocompromised, at high risk, or who choose to still use them.

The official statement can be found here.