Today s five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 42.6 per cent provincially. As of 9:30am on January 14, 2021, 1215 new cases of the virus have been identified. According to Dr. Jazz Awtal, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer, actual case numbers are estimated to be eight to 10 times higher than reported due to the rapid spread of the omicron variant, which has overwhelmed testing capacity and led to many cases going unreported.