Premier Doug Ford will be giving the green light to seven more of Ontario's 34 public health regions to enter Stage 3 this afternoon, according tomultiplesources.

Sadly (or fortunately,depending on who you ask), Toronto won't be one of them.

Durham, Halton, Hamilton, Niagara, Haldiman-Norfolk, Lambton and York regions will all reportedly be permitted to enter Stage 3 of the provincial government's reopening process on Friday, just like they were allowed as a group toenter Stage 2 on June 19.

Only Toronto, Peel and Windsor-Essex will remain in Stage 2 once this happens, though the former two regions are expected to move forward sometime next week.

Windsor-Essex will likely be the last region to hit Stage 3, as it was last to enter Stage 2 and the province needs roughly four solid weeks of data to determine whether or not a region is ready to advance.

All remaining municipalities will move to Stage 3 except Toronto, Peel Region and Windsor Essex.#onpoli#topoli#covid19https://t.co/ekep8dDRwU

— Trustee Norm Di Pasquale TCDSB Ward 9 (@normsworld)July 20, 2020

Last week, the provincial government announced that24 public health regions would be permitted to enter Stage 3on Friday, July 17, after four months of mandatory closure orders for dine-in restaurants, bars, fitness centres, theatres, casinos, team sports and live event venues.

All of the above non-essential services (and anything else not explicitly listed by the province in itsframework document3)可以恢复操作阶段,但前提是they can do so safely.

It is up to each individual business owner to make that determination andemergency orders remain in placeto fine those who are caught break physical distancing or other public health regulations.

Businesses that do open under Stage 3 will do so withstringent gathering limits in placeof 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.

Ford is expected to formally announce the next crop of regions permitted to enter Stage 3 during his regularly-scheduled pandemic press conference at 1 p.m. this afternoon.