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Toronto Orders Workplaces Shut to ‘Slam Brakes’ on Outbreaks
- City’s move supersedes looser provincial rules on Covid-19
- Decision comes as Canadian hospitals creak under third wave
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Toronto health authorities will order workplaces across Canada’s biggest city to close if they have more than five confirmed cases of Covid-19.
The decision Tuesday overrides less stringent provincial orders, and follows a similar move by Peel Region, a western suburb. It comes as the city struggles to contain a surge in variant cases that threatens to collapse the local health-care system.