Service Ontario workplace in Kingston, Ont., on March 23, 2016. (Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)
Ontario residents now have one other eight months to get their well being playing cards renewed.
In a information launch issued Wednesday, the provincial authorities stated they had been extending the deadline to resume well being playing cards to Sept. 30.
In an effort to maintain folks from gathering at Service Ontario areas when the pandemic was first declared, the federal government stated that any identification playing cards, together with the Ontario Photograph Well being Card, that expired after March 2020 didn't need to be renewed.
Because the scenario improved, the federal government reinstated renewal necessities.
The unique deadline for well being playing cards to be renewed was Feb. 28.
"In response to the pandemic our authorities prolonged the renewal necessities for Ontario well being playing cards," Well being Minister Christine Elliott stated in an announcement.
"Whereas the vast majority of Ontarians have continued to resume their paperwork all through the pandemic, we're dedicated to making sure all Ontarians have the chance to resume whereas persevering with to entry the care they want, after they want it.”
Ontario residents will be capable to proceed utilizing expired well being playing cards till the brand new September deadline.
The deadline to resume drivers licences, licence stickers and different automobile merchandise stays Feb. 28.
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