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COVID CLAMPDOWN — Cabinet meets today to discuss new pandemic measures in the face of Omicron. Much of the news has already leaked — including that the province will keep the vaccine passport system in place beyond the original end date of January 17 and it will be QR-code only, phasing out the easily-faked paper receipts.

Meanwhile, a tougher rubric for validating medical exemptions is coming after complaints about doctors doling them out under questionable circumstances, sources say.

Top doc KIERAN MOORE is up with the details at 2 p.m.