Ontario reported 2,359 new cases of COVID-19 and 52 more deaths on Saturday.
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Posted: Jan 23, 2021 10:23 AM ET | Last Updated: January 23
A road sign in Toronto urges people to do their bit to halt the spread of COVID-19 in the city.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Ontario reported 2,359 new cases of COVID-19 and 52 more deaths on Saturday.
Toronto has 708 new cases, Peel Region has 422, York Region has 220, Hamilton has 107 and Ottawa has 101.
A total of 1,501 people are in hospital with COVID-19, 395 in intensive care units and 299 are on ventilators.
Ontario Minister of Health Christine Elliott said the province s network of labs completed nearly 63,500 tests in the last 24 hours.
U.K. variant of COVID-19 confirmed in massive outbreak at Barrie long-term care home
by News Staff and The Canadian Press
Posted Jan 23, 2021 11:39 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 23, 2021 at 6:05 pm EDT
All residents and most of the staff at Roberta Place Long-Term Care in Barrie, ON have been infected with COVID-19. GOOGLE STREET VIEW
The Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit has confirmed the U.K. variant of COVID-19 is present in a Barrie long-term care home that has experienced one of the worst outbreaks of COVID-19 in the province.
Genome sequencing on six samples confirmed the presence of the highly contagious and easily transmitted variant at Roberta Place.
Last Updated Sunday, January 24, 2021 6:02AM EST The United Kingdom COVID-19 variant has been identified at a Barrie long-term care home coping with a massive outbreak of the virus. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) confirmed that six COVID-19 cases from Roberta Place Long-Term Care Home have been identified as the highly contagious coronavirus variant. The cases are among five residents and one employee. As of Saturday, 127 residents have tested positive for the virus, along with 84 staff members, which represents half of the workers who helped respond to the outbreak, SMDHU Medical Officer of Health Dr. Charles Gardner said during a virtual press conference Saturday afternoon.
There are 122 residents confirmed to have the virus, which is unchanged from Wednesday, while the number of cases among staff and team members increased to 74 from 69 in the past 24 hours