Emergency information

Provincial status on COVID-19

Update on August 24, 2021

With key public health and health care indicators continuing to improve and the provincewide vaccination rate surpassing the targets outlined in the province’s Roadmap to Reopen, Ontario moved into Step Three at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 16, 2021.

Step Three of the Roadmap focuses on the resumption of additional indoor services with larger numbers of people and restrictions in place. Face coverings in indoor public settings and physical distancing requirements remain in place throughout Step Three.

Ontario will remain in Step Three until 80 per cent of the eligible population aged 12 and over has received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 75 per cent have received their second, with no public health unit having less than 70 per cent of their population fully vaccinated.

Additionally, orders under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act have been extended until September 8. Orders under the Reopening Ontario Act have been extended until September 17.