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Ontario Premier threatening to bring in more "extreme" measures if COVID-19 rates do not come down
BY , Jan 9, 2021 1:07 AM - REPORT AN ERROR
A health-care worker riding an escalator watches Ontario Premier Doug Ford speak to the media at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Doug Ford
Doug Ford
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is threatening to extend the current lockdown and bring in more "extreme" measures if COVID-19 rates do not come down.
The province has shattered another record for daily COVID-19 infections with a total of 4,249 new infections, including 450 from earlier this week.
Ford warns the surging cases are stretching hospital capacity and that could lead to more illnesses and deaths.
Ford says new projections that will be released next week are very concerning.
Ontario's associate medical officer of health says the province may need to return to a stricter lockdown similar to the one imposed last spring.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is slamming Ford for not imposing more stringent lockdown measures sooner.
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