Ontario's stay-at-home order has been lifted for all but the North Bay Parry Sound, Peel, Toronto, and York health unit regions.
Locally, Algoma Public Health's now in the "Yellow-Protect" category of the province's tiered restrictions framework - its second lowest level - allowing public events and social gatherings of up to ten people indoors or 25 people outdoors - doubling for staffed businesses and facilities - while religious ceremonies - including weddings and funerals - can have 100 people outdoors or 30 percent capacity indoors with physical distancing, up to six people may be seated together in restaurants without buffet-style service, and sports and recreational facilities can reopen with restrictions.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts - which includes Chapleau - is in the next level up, "Orange-Restrict", further limiting restaurant seating including to only four people per table, with most other restrictions about the same.
While restrictions have loosened, Algoma Public Health's urging everyone to stay at home as much as possible and avoid close contact with others outside your household, noting evidence of community spread in recent cases and warning that variants of concern spread much more quickly and aggressively - while they have not been detected in Algoma, variants first detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa have been confirmed in other parts of Northern Ontario.