Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to make an announcement Friday and discuss the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the city of Toronto and Peel Region enter Stage 3 of the Ontario government’s reopening plan.

The stage three entry took effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, five weeks after Toronto entered stage two. Windsor-Essex is the last remaining part of Ontario to remain in stage two of the reopening.

Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce also unveiled on Thursday the province's back-to-school plans for students in the fall.

They said students will be returning on Sept. 8, with elementary students returning full-time to in-class learning, while high school students will see a hybrid-model using cohorts of 15 students that will see them learning half in-class and half online with enhanced safety procedures.

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