Ontario Premier Doug Ford says that increased data coming from a new COVID-19 testing strategy unveiled today has prompted him to consider a regional approach to reopening.
Ford has been asked on multiple occasions about the idea and has said it wasn't on the table, but now he says he's asking health officials to show him what a regional approach would look like.
The Niagara Falls Review reporting our local Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mustafa Hirji is among the top doctors who doesn't believe a one size fits all approach is the best way to manage the pandemic.
Two-thirds of the province's cases are in the Greater Toronto Area.
In the past three days Niagara Public Health has reported just two new cases of the virus.
Ontario's new testing strategy includes targeting specific workers such as first responders, LCBO staff and people in businesses with outbreaks, and sometimes bringing mobile testing units to them.
The province has at times struggled to meet its daily testing goals, and is now expanding the list of those who can get tested.
A testing strategy released today says the province is testing staff and inmates in some correctional facilities, staff in select hospitals, first responders in Toronto and their families, LCBO workers, all residents and staff in retirement homes and people in long-term care homes for a second time.