Coronavirus: Ontario lowers coronavirus restrictions threshold, moves more areas to red zone | FULL

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that they were updating the threshold warning levels for COVID-19 that were put in place and stressed people should work remotely where possible and not visit people outside of their own homes.

Health Minister Christine Elliott also announced that due to the changes to the threshold levels, several regions would be moving to new levels, with Hamilton, Halton, Peel and York moving to red level. Niagara, Waterloo and Durham were among seven regions moving to orange, and Windsor-Essex, Middlesex-London and Sudbury were among another seven regions moving to yellow level. All changes will take effect Monday, with the exception of Toronto which moves to red level on Saturday.

The premier said he takes his advice from chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams, who was in attendance at Friday's COVID-19 briefing, and said if he gets the green light from Williams that a lockdown is necessary, he would lockdown "quicker than you can blink your eyes." He added that "everything was on the table."

Ontario reported 1,396 new cases on Friday.

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