Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Thursday, December 10, 2020:
There have been 132,800 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,890 (or 1.4 per cent) from the previous day. There are 112,875 people recovered from the virus while 3,836 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 6,714,333 of which 54,613 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 435,330. The country has 12,983 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 559 in British Columbia, 653 in Alberta, 71 in Saskatchewan, 438 in Manitoba, 3,836 in Ontario, 7,349 in Quebec, seven in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
OTTAWA On the day Ontario set a record for highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, 31 more Ottawa residents tested positive for COVID-19. Ottawa Public Health reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with one new death linked to the virus. The 31 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday is the second lowest one-day total number of cases in Ottawa in December. Twenty-five of the 31 new cases of COVID-19 involve Ottawa residents under the age of 30. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 8,894 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 383 deaths.