Orders under Section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act

Dr. M. Mustafa Hirji, Medical Officer of Health (Acting) for Niagara Region has issued orders under Section 22 for:

Shopping and retail
Food and drink premises, including bars, restaurants, banquet halls, wineries or breweries and establishments where only beverages are served

Orders issued on Feb. 18 will take effect for shopping malls, retail businesses, and food and drink premises in Niagara on Feb. 22.

Indoor and outdoor sit down dining isn't currently permitted in Niagara while we're in Grey-Lockdown of the province's COVID-19 response framework.

If you're not a business, learn about public health guidelines for the community.

Contact

If you're a business owner or operator and have questions about the Section 22 class orders:

Email [email protected]
Contact the COVID-19 Info-Line Monday to Friday from 9:15 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. at 905-688-8248, press 7 or toll-free at 1-888-505-6074

Orders under Section 22

Failure to comply with these orders is an offence for which you may be liable, on conviction, to a fine of not more than $5,000 for every day or part of each day on which the offence occurs or continues.

province's framework for keeping Ontario safe and open, COVID-19 continued to rise, though slowly, but eventually leading to the provincial shutdown earlier this winter.
We see variants of COVID-19 increasingly spreading in the GTA; other countries that have reopened such as the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands have found that these variants caused a third wave and required a third lockdown soon after the second lockdown.
To save lives and give our economy a sustained reopening to recover, it's imperative that the reopening be carefully managed.

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