COVID-19 vaccinations for non-essential activities and health-care workers as infections rise, but the government is urging people to focus less on daily case counts and more on hospitalizations.Health Minister Christine Elliott held the line Tuesday on her government’s staunch opposition to both requiring health-care workers be vaccinated and requiring a vaccine certification system for places such as bars and gyms, as seen in some other jurisdictions.“There’s a mixture of views on that particular subject and we are not mandating vaccines for anyone, although we strongly encourage people to take the vaccine,” she said after an announcement in Collingwood, Ont.