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Ontario health minister stops tweeting COVID data; figures still available on province’s website

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Ontario’s health minister says she will no longer tweet the province’s latest COVID-19 data every morning as she has done throughout the pandemic.

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“With key indicators continuing to improve or remain stable and the majority of public health measures now lifted, today will be the last day I tweet the daily COVID-19 numbers,” Christine Elliott said Friday.

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She noted that updated data will still be available on the province’s website.

Throughout the pandemic, Elliott would tweet the latest COVID-19 figures daily, providing an update on the epidemiological situation in the province.

The province has shifted towards “living with and managing COVID-19,” a plan which includes lifting all public health measures by the end of April.

On Monday, the mask mandate will lift for most public settings in the province.

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