Dr. Julie Emili, an associate medical officer of health for the region, says the community is on the cusp of seeing new COVID-19 case rates escalate because of the delta variant and warns people need to be careful as more things open up. Public health reported xx new cases on Friday.
Region of Waterloo Public Health reported 63 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. That is 12 per cent of the total number of cases reported in the province, which saw 509 cases.
The number of COVID-19 cases jumped Wednesday to 57 new cases and public health also reported two deaths. The number of people in hospital also rose to 34 with 20 people in intensive care. Officials say all people currently in the region's hospitals are from the community.
Uptick in COVID-19 cases likely linked to long weekend: Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang
Waterloo region saw 57 new COVID-19 cases reported Friday. That uptick in cases compared to lower case rates earlier this week is likely due to people getting together over the long weekend, the region s medical officer of health says.
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Posted: Jun 04, 2021 1:58 PM ET | Last Updated: June 4
A man wearing a mask and carrying a food delivery bag walks down King Street in uptown Waterloo. Waterloo region saw an increase in COVID-19 cases on Friday compared to earlier in the week, with 57 new cases reported Friday.(Jackie Sharkey/CBC)
Active cases also rose slightly to 312, up from 307.
There were no new deaths reported Thursday. The total number of deaths in Waterloo region linked to COVID-19 sits at 256.
There have been a total of 16,070 cases since March 2020 with 15,492 marked as resolved.
There were 18 people with COVID-19 in the region s hospitals as of Thursday, a rise of one, with nine of those people in the intensive care unit.
The region reported there were 3,285 cases that have tested positive for a mutation or variant. Of those:
2,901 are confirmed to be the B117 variant first detected in the U.K.
29 are the P1 variant first detected in Brazil.