[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]This next step will see more allowances for certain businesses and outdoor activities, and limitations on group gatherings to rise to 10 people from the previous five-person allowance.Kingston’s numbers have been consistently low throughout the pandemic, with no deaths and only one outbreak listed at a long-term care home.The region has been COVID-19 free once before since the pandemic began, but that streak was broken in mid-May.Nevertheless, the region has only seen two new cases in the last three weeks, both of which have resolved..