The Manitoba government has laid out the Phase Three draft plan today.
Premier Brian Pallister says the next stage of allowing more businesses to reopen will happen no sooner than June 21st.
The province is looking for the public’s feedback on the proposed changes.
We can expect the following services to be restored in Phase Three:
- increasing gathering sizes to up to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors;
- developing guidelines for faith-based and other cultural gatherings, pow wows and other Indigenous cultural and spiritual gatherings, and small summer fairs and festivals;
- easing border restrictions to allow residents of western Canada and northwest Ontario to enter Manitoba without the need to self-isolate for 14 days;
- resuming regular licensed capacity for child-care centres with guidelines in place;
- increasing group sizes for day camps from 24 children to 50;
- increasing indoor occupancy levels for community/service centres and senior centres/clubs;
- allowing people employed by or affiliated with a film production to enter Manitoba without self-isolating for 14 days;
- allowing people employed by or affiliated with a professional sports team to enter Manitoba without self-isolating for 14 days;
- removing occupancy limits for retail businesses while ensuring physical distancing measures are in place;
- increasing indoor and patio occupancy limits to 75 percent of total capacity for restaurants, bars, beverage rooms, brew pubs, microbreweries and distilleries; and
- lifting occupancy limits for regulated and non-regulated health professions including registered massage therapists.
A detailed version of the reopening plan can be found here.
Manitoba businesses that want to give feedback, or have questions about how the next phase will affect them can visit https://engagemb.ca/.
