Ontario Closing Schools And Indoor Dining In Effort To Stop Omicron Spread

As we ring into the new year, it appears Canada will remain consistent--for all the wrong reasons on COVID-19.

In another act of Canada craziness, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced new COVID-19 mandates Monday, due to a rise in cases of the Omicron variant. Perhaps the most notable change being that children will move to remote learning, beginning on Jan. 5.

“As part of the province’s response to the Omicron variant, starting January 5, students will pivot to remote learning with free emergency child care planned for school-aged children of health care and other eligible frontline workers,” the government said in a statement, via the Toronto Sun.

Yes it's true, classrooms around Ontario will be barren once more, while it's back to the laptops and Zoom for students. The mandate will run through at least Jan. 17.

Don't think they forgot about the adults, however, as the Ford administration announced that indoor dining and gyms will be closed. As the Sun reports, here are a few more mandates that will take into effect.

The Omicron variant is surging throughout North America--through both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Ontario, despite being nearly 77% fully vaccinated, has reported 119,231 COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days.

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