Ontario Premier Doug Ford provided an update on the province's ongoing response to COVID-19 on Tuesday.

He will be joined by Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, Minister of Long-Term Care, John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, and Barbara Collins, President and CEO of Humber River Hospital.

The premier announced on Monday that Windsor-Essex will enter Stage 3 of the province’s reopening plan amid the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, Aug. 12.

Officials said the decision was based on positive local trends that included lower transmission of the virus in recent daily case counts.

Ontario reported 115 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, bringing the provincial total to 40,161. The death toll in the province remains at 2,786 as no new deaths were reported.

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