Reopening Ontario – Step 2 in the TBDHU
The Roadmap to Reopen is the Ontario’s three-step plan to safely and gradually lift public health measures based on ongoing progress of provincewide vaccination rates and improvements of key public health and health care indicators.
On June 30 at 12:01 a.m., Ontario will move to Step 2. [ONN edit added from Ontario Government website]
The province will remain at each step for at least 21 days to evaluate any impacts on key public health and health system indicators.
A summary of Roadmap to Reopen can be found on the Roadmap to Reopen at a Glance page.Full details for Step 2 can be found in Ontario Regulation 263/20.
Step 2
Step 2 will further expand outdoor activities and will resume limited indoor services with small numbers of people where face coverings are worn, with other restrictions in place.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Outdoor social gatherings and organized public events for up to 25 people
- Indoor social gatherings and organized public events for up to 5 people
- Outdoor dining for up to 6 people per table
- Essential and other select retail permitted at 50% capacity
- Non-essential retail capacity at 25%
- Stores in shopping malls open, with restrictions
- Larger indoor religious services, rites, or ceremonies, including wedding services and funeral services at 25% capacity
- Outdoor religious services, rites, or ceremonies, including wedding services and funeral services, capped at the number of people that can maintain a physical distance of two metres
- Overnight camps
- Personal care services where face coverings can be worn at all times at 25% capacity
- Outdoor fitness classes are capped at the number of people who can maintain 3 metres of distance
- Public libraries permitted at 25% capacity
- Outdoor meeting and event spaces at 25% capacity
- Outdoor amusement and water parks at 25% capacity
- Outdoor sports games, leagues and events at 25% capacity
- Outdoor cinemas, performing arts, live music events and attractions at 25% capacity
- Outdoor horse racing and motor speedways at 25% capacity
Ontario will remain in Step 2 for at least 21 days and can then move to Step 3 if the province has vaccinated 70 to 80% of adults with one dose and 25% of adults with two doses, and positive trends in public health and health system indicators continue.
