COVID-19 – Enhanced Measures For Your Health, Well-being and Safety

For regions in the Orange-Restrict level, capacity limits for indoor dining will be adjusted and based on a standard, scalable calculation that will allow for up to approximately 50 percent of the indoor dining area to be accessible to the public, subject to physical distancing rules. The total occupancy cannot exceed 100 patrons in Orange-Restrict.

Grey-Lockdown Control requires everyone to stay home as much as possible with exceptions for permitted purposes or activities, such as; going to the grocery store or pharmacy, accessing health care services, for exercise, or for work where the work cannot be done remotely.

Provincewide brake measures include, but are not limited to:

• Prohibiting indoor organized public events and social gatherings and limiting the capacity for outdoor organized public events or social gatherings to a 5-person maximum, except for gatherings with members of the same household (the people you live with) or gatherings of members of one household and one other person from another household who lives alone.

• Restricting in-person shopping in all retail settings, including a 50 percent capacity limit for supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, indoor farmers’ markets, other stores that primarily sell food and pharmacies, and 25 percent for all other retailers including big box stores, along with other public health and workplace safety measures;

• Prohibiting personal care services;
• Prohibiting indoor and outdoor dining. Restaurants, bars and other food or drink establishments will be permitted to operate by take-out, drive-through, and delivery only;

• Prohibiting the use of facilities for indoor or outdoor sports and recreational fitness (e.g., gyms) with very limited exceptions;

• Requiring day camps to close; and,
• Limiting capacity at weddings, funerals, and religious services, rites or ceremonies to 15 per cent occupancy per room indoors, and to the number of individuals that can maintain two metres of physical distance outdoors. This does not include social gatherings associated with these services such as receptions, which are not permitted indoors and are limited to five people outdoors.

COVID-19 Orange-Restrict means:

• Events and social gatherings in private homes, backyards or parks (for example, barbeques) limited to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors
• Organized public events and gatherings in staffed businesses and facilities (for example, event spaces) limited to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors
• Religious, wedding and funeral services limited to 30% capacity indoors and 100 people outdoors
• Individuals are required to wear a mask or face covering in indoor areas of businesses or organizations that are open.
• Wearing a mask or face covering is recommended outdoors when you can’t physically distance more than two metres
• Non-essential retail stores, including hardware stores, alcohol retailers, and those offering curbside pickup or delivery, must operate at: the lesser of approximately 50% of indoor dining area or 100 people and when outdoors, limited to allow physical distancing of 2 metres to be maintained
• Stores that primarily sell food, pharmacies, gas stations, convenience stores, and restaurants for takeout or delivery are required to close by 10 pm.
• If you must go out for an essential reason, wearing a 3-ply mask outdoors is the public health recommendation
• For the full breakdown of Orange-Restrict restrictions, please click here.

COVID-19 Grey-Lockdown means:

• Outdoor organized public gatherings and social gatherings are restricted to a limit of 10 people with limited exceptions
• Individuals are required to wear a mask or face covering in indoor areas of businesses or organizations that are open.
• Wearing a mask or face covering is now recommended outdoors when you can’t physically distance more than two metres
• Non-essential retail stores, including hardware stores, alcohol retailers, and those offering curbside pickup or delivery, must operate at no more than 25% capacity
• Stores that primarily sell food, pharmacies, gas stations, convenience stores, and restaurants for takeout or delivery are permitted to operate at a limit of 50% capacity
• If you must go out for an essential reason, wearing a 3-ply mask outdoors is the public health recommendation
• For the full breakdown of Grey-Lockdown restrictions, please click here.

COVID-19 Red-Control means:

• Outdoor organized public gatherings and social gatherings are restricted to a limit of 25 people with limited exceptions
• Individuals are required to wear a mask or face covering in indoor areas of businesses or organizations that are open.
• Wearing a mask or face covering is now recommended outdoors when you can’t physically distance more than two metres
• Non-essential retail stores, including hardware stores, alcohol retailers, and those offering curbside pickup or delivery, must operate at no more than 50% capacity
• Stores that primarily sell food, pharmacies, gas stations, convenience stores, and restaurants for takeout or delivery are permitted to operate at a limit of 75% capacity
• If you must go out for an essential reason, wearing a 3-ply mask outdoors is the public health recommendation
• For the full breakdown of Red-Control restrictions, please click here.