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Toronto Goes Back to Lockdown as ICUs Fill With Virus Patients

Ontario imposes new rules similar to March restrictions
British Columbia mandates masks and broadens travel curbs

Pedestrians walk past a vacant storefront in Toronto on Nov. 13.Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg

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By Ilya Banares and Kait Bolongaro

November 20, 2020 at 4:25 PM UTC

Updated on

November 20, 2020 at 9:41 PM UTC

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Canada’s largest province ordered a lockdown in Toronto and one of its suburbs, a declaration that forces shopping malls, restaurants and other businesses to close their doors to slow a second wave of coronavirus cases.