Ontario will be implementing a gradual and phased in re-opening plan later this month.
As of Monday January 31st at 12:01 a.m. social gatherings will be limited to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors and indoor public settings will be capped at 50 per cent capacity at the following settings:
- Restaurants, bars and other food or drink establishments without dance facilities
- Retailers (including grocery stores and pharmacies)
- Shopping malls
- Non-spectator areas of sports and recreational fitness facilities, including gyms
- Cinemas
- Meeting and event spaces
- Recreational amenities and amusement parks, including water parks
- Museums, galleries, aquariums, zoos and similar attractions
- Casinos, bingo halls and other gaming establishments
- Religious services, rites, or ceremonies
The province will enact more re-opening measures on the subsequent dates:
February 21, 2022
- Social gathering limits to 25 people indoors and 100 people outdoors
- Removing capacity limits in indoor public settings where proof of vaccination is required, including but not limited to restaurants, indoor sports and recreational facilities, cinemas, as well as other settings that choose to opt-in to proof of vaccination requirements
- Permitting spectator capacity at sporting events, concert venues, and theatres at 50 per cent capacity
- Limiting capacity in most remaining indoor public settings where proof of vaccination is not required to the number of people that can maintain two metres of physical distance
- Indoor religious services, rites or ceremonies limited to the number that can maintain two metres of physical distance, with no limit if proof of vaccination is required
- Increasing indoor capacity limits to 25 per cent in the remaining higher-risk settings where proof of vaccination is required, including nightclubs, wedding receptions in meeting or event spaces where there is dancing, as well as bathhouses and sex clubs
March 14, 2022
- Lifting capacity limits in all indoor public settings (proof of vaccination will be maintained in existing settings in addition to other regular measures)
- Lifting remaining capacity limits on religious services, rites, or ceremonies
- Increase social gathering limits to 50 people indoors with no limits for outdoor gatherings
