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Fort William First Nation is ordering all businesses on the territory to close temporarily for two weeks starting this Friday

Staff is being trained to work in isolation unit, which can hold up to 36 patients. At present there are three confirmed cases in hospital and 18 presumptive cases.

Rehabilitation can begin because the dam is critical infrastructure

The province has been testing between 2,000 and 3,000 people per day, but Premier Doug Ford says the province has the capacity to test 13,000 people a day for COVID-19.

Good Friday service will start at 11 a.m., while Easter Sunday service begins at 10:30 a.m.

Smaller businesses can apply for up to $20,000 in low-interest loans.

The changes result from efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Since March 16, the government has made changes at provincial correctional institutions to reduce the inmate population in order to help reduce the impacts of a potential COVID-19 outbreak for those in custody. At the Thunder Bay District Jail, the population has reduced from 181 to 142.

An open letter from labour groups calls for province to give workers greater say in PPE use, up testing.