COVID-19 response framework anytime soon.Dr. Elizabeth Richardson responded with an “absolutely not” to the ‘felicitous’ question from councillor Tom Jackson during a board of health meeting on Friday saying community spread of the B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in the United Kingdom, in the province is the primary reason for staying put.“We’re seeing community spread of that,” Richardson said. “We are seeing increasing rates of positivity with that spread in the tests that are done Ontario wide.” Ontario reports 1,150 new coronavirus cases, 47 more deaths On Friday, the Doug Ford government announced that York will be the only region in the province seeing some restrictions eased when it transitions to the red-control level on.