sports.Starting Jan. 31, Ontario will begin to ease COVID-19 restrictions on select businesses, including allowing 50 per cent capacity in restaurants, retailers and sports and recreational fitness facilities.In a statement to Global News, the province confirmed that as of Jan.
31, it’s “increasing or maintaining capacity limits at 50 per cent in most indoor public settings, including non-spectator areas of facilities used for sports and recreational fitness activities.”“This would include youth sports facilities,” the statement read.
Some Ontario health units tighten COVID-19 immunization rules for indoor youth sports Abbi Lezizidis, the president of Whitecaps London Soccer Club, says they’re ready to return.“I’m very confident we’ll be back at the end of the month,” he said. “We’re still waiting for details from our governing body, which is the Ontario Soccer (League).”The soccer club has been holding virtual online training sessions for its players.Lezizidis says if everything goes to plan, “we won’t have to adjust any schedules.
All the teams already have their schedules, we will just have to provide them a start date.”“All the hard work is done, it’s just a matter of getting the final green light (as) we sit here, waiting for the light to turn green,” he laughed.