Christine Elliott

A rule requiring international travellers landing at Ontario's largest airport to take a COVID-19 test came into effect on Monday, February 1, 2021, amid growing concern over vaccine deliveries and new reported cases of contagious COVID-19 variants.

Canada is not getting any COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech next week and the federal government says it can't tell provinces exactly how many doses to expect over the next month.

Some provincial authorities saw encouraging signs in the fight against COVID-19 on Monday, January 18, 2021, even as experts warned that it's too soon to draw conclusions from the data and provinces scrambled to deal with a looming shortage of Pfizer vaccines.

Toronto reported just one new case Tuesday. "We have made tremendous progress that allows us to return to something a little closer to our normal lives this summer, but we are not out of the woods yet," Premier Doug Ford cautioned.

Some officials, including Toronto Mayor John Tory, have raised concerns about indoor bar reopenings that will come with stage three.

The Ontario premier and his health minister got tested yesterday after another minister was in contact with someone who had the virus.

Ontario’s pandemic pay left out many health-care workers who are on the front line of the pandemic. The province won’t explain how it chose who would get the top-up.

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce was tested for the virus Tuesday after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott hastily cancelled their daily press conference Wednesday, announcing that they would get tested as well.

The second stage of Ontario's reopen will start on June 12, allowing patios, hair salons and other services to reopen. But a stretch of southern Ontario that wraps around Lake Ontario — spanning from Durham to the Greater Toronto Area to Hamilton and Niagara — will have to wait a while longer, along with Chatham-Kent and Windsor-Essex.

The first phase of Ontario's pandemic reopening plan begins Tuesday, but officials are still asking the public to maintain physical distancing. "I just ask, hang in there a little bit longer," Premier Doug Ford said.

The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario says it assembled a list of about 200 nurses who were ready and willing to help in long-term care, but the Ontario government waited weeks to deploy them.

Premier Doug Ford said Thursday the province’s long-term care system is “broken,” at one point looking visibly emotional. Later, his office confirmed that his mother-in-law, who lives in a long-term care facility, has tested positive for the virus.

At a press conference at Queen's Park Saturday, officials announce case of man in 50s In Toronto hospital with suspected case of coronavirus.

A youth from London, Ont., has been diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness related to vaping, local health officials said on Wednesday, September 18, 2019.

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