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<\/p>\nToronto, Peel, York and Windsor-Essex are currently in the grey or lockdown zone of the COVID-19 framework with strict limits on social gatherings and businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you they won\u2019t be expiring,\u201d Ford said Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue on with the lockdowns within those regions and we\u2019ll have additional information on Monday for the balance of the province.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brant County and Niagara Region are moving to the red or control zone Monday, while Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington goes to orange or restrict zone.<\/p>\n
Timiskaming moves to the yellow or protect zone, while Sudbury moves the opposite direction on the COVID-19 framework to the least restrictive zone called green or prevent.<\/p>\n
Ontario recorded another 2,290 new cases of COVID-19 Friday and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said people should be prepared for a \u201cdarker shade of grey\u201d \u2014 referring to restrictions in addition to the framework\u2019s lockdown measures.<\/p>\n
Toronto confirmed 691 new cases, Peel had 361, York 296, Hamilton 126 cases, Durham 89 and Halton 57 cases.<\/p>\n
Windsor-Essex reported 207 additional cases and Waterloo another 84 cases.<\/p>\n
Public health officials reported 877 patients in hospital, including 261 in intensive care and 168 on a ventilator.<\/p>\n
Ford said he\u2019s asked for an emergency meeting with every hospital CEO in the province over the weekend, as the climbing hospitalizations threaten capacity for \u201celective\u201d but important surgeries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to listen to what\u2019s happening on the ground, within the hospitals, within the ICU units,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n
The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), which has warned for years that the province\u2019s health care system is under resourced, released a survey Friday of 88 long-term care staff members from dozens of nursing homes.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe most common element of care that cannot be done is hygiene. Staff report that bathing and grooming cannot be completed at all in some homes, and in others, if completed, are not up to the standards they expect,\u201d an OHC statement says. \u201cThe other common response is that staff struggle to feed and hydrate all of the residents. Residents are not being fed the entire meal, and if residents had difficulty being fed at meal times, there is not enough time for them to be given food later.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n