Premier Doug Ford commented on the decision to keep Niagara in stage one during his press conference today.
“Their cases ramped up over I believe it was 15 percent, which is staggering."
Niagara Region Public Health reported 40 new cases of COVID-19 last Thursday, which was its largest single-day spike during the pandemic.
Ford says he understands that most of those cases were migrant workers, but it still left his team no choice but to prevent Niagara from moving on to stage two this Friday.
He also says he asked his team is every region had been contacted before yesterday’s announcement and they said yes.
But he adds now is not the time to be finger-pointing, adding we’re all in this together.
Ford says every community will get a follow-up call and the situation will be monitored weekly.
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