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Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine certificate program to end March 1

Feb 14, 2022

Ontario’s premier says the province is ending its vaccine certificate system on March 1, when capacity limits will lift as well. Doug Ford’s announcement came as several other provinces — including Alberta and Saskatchewan — on Monday moved ahead with previously announced lifting of public health measures.

Ford said Monday that masking requirements will stay in place for now, but the province said a timeline to lift them will come later.

“The removal of these measures has always been our objective,” Ford said, noting that the announcement about public health measures came “not because of what’s happening in Ottawa or Windsor, but despite it.”

A vaccine mandate for staff in long-term care homes will remain, the premier said.

Meanwhile, Alberta’s mandatory mask requirement for children under 12 in all settings and for all students in schools ended Monday, while Saskatchewan’s use of a vaccine passport program is also ending.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-feb14-2022-1.6350677