The province is out with an updated list of what changes January 31st.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore stated that the venues will still screen patrons prior to entry however most businesses will no longer need to collect information for contact tracing.
Anyone attending indoor events like a concert or sporting game will be allowed to consume drinks or food while seated.
However, Moore is still encouraging anyone that is able to work from home to continue to do so but it will no longer be a legal requirement except where necessary.
When it comes to the 50 per cent capacity rule, it applies to rooms within a facility and not the number of people you can fit in the whole building.
In hospitals, Ontario will be taking a phased approach to resume non-urgent surgeries and procedures in pediatrics, diagnostic services, cancer screenings, some ambulatory clinics, private hospitals, and independent health facilities.
On Monday, January 31st social gatherings will be limited to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors and the following settings will be capped at 50 per cent capacity:
- 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
