Premier Doug Ford, joined by Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Prabmeet Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, provided an update on the province's COVID-19 response and made an announcement.

Sarkaria announced the launch of an online portal called COVID-19: Tackling the Barriers, which is intended for the province to collect feedback from Ontarians, including small business owners or health-care workers, on the best response during the pandemic. He said "particularly, we are looking for temporary rule or regulation changes to assist our health-care system and meeting emergency needs."

On Monday, Ford's government released a framework for how it would go about reopening the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the premier stressed it would be about how not when they reopen.

Ford did not give any specific dates unlike other provinces that recently announced their reopening plans, but said when they enter the "restart" phase it would be done in stages that last two to four weeks, with the province's chief medical officer Dr. David Williams deciding when they could move to the next stage.

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