Even with COVID passports, Ontario won’t lift capacity limits for some venues
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The province is reneging on its promise to lift capacity limits on all remaining ‘higher-risk settings’ such as wedding venues, night clubs, and event spaces.
(LifeSiteNews) — Ontario will not go through with the original plan to remove capacity limits in certain “higher-risk settings” despite already requiring them to enforce the province’s proof-of-vaccination system.
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, announced that the province is reneging on its promise to lift capacity limits on all remaining “higher-risk settings” such as wedding venues, night clubs, and event spaces, due to a purported jump in positive COVID cases. This announcement comes despite the affected venues already being forced to require proof of vaccination upon entry, and the province’s largest venues remaining exempt.
With the new rules, large sporting venues like the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Scotiabank arena, which seats 19,800 people (about the seating capacity of Madison Square Garden), will remain exempt from the capacity limit dictates, whereas nightclubs and wedding venues that normally service 10 times fewer people, will be capped due to “dancing” being considered a “higher-risk” activity.
“While Ontario has continued to make progress as a result of its safe and cautious approach to reopening, it is necessary to make this deliberate pause as we approach the winter holidays where more people will begin gathering indoors and where students will be returning to in-class learning in January after celebrating with friends and family,” said Moore. “Over the coming weeks and months, we need to stay the course on reaching those who have not yet been vaccinated, follow public health and workplace safety measures, and continue to remain vigilant in order to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 and keep our communities safe.”
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