The Ontario government will impose a province-wide lockdown on Christmas Eve, returning life to the same bare-bones business activity seen in March. There will be a 28-day lockdown for Ontario south of Sudbury beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, sources confirmed. The northern parts of Ontario will be under a 14-day lockdown. The news comes with grim forecasts from a variety of health authorities that January will see potential C-19 surges that will test health facilities. On Sunday, the province recorded 2,316 new cases of the virus.
Canada halts travel from the United Kingdom
Also Sunday, Canada joined several European nations in halting flights from the UK in an effort to prevent a new, potentially more contagious strain of the coronavirus from spreading to this country. Various frightening things are said about the variant — that it is “out of control” and that it is 70 percent more contagious — but there is little context or depth to the information so far. Prime Minister Johnson spoke Sunday and said the new strain does not seem so far to be any more lethal than the one the world has been battling for a year.
