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Last Updated Tuesday, December 29, 2020 1:07PM EST Ontario reported more than 4,400 new COVID-19 cases over the past two days, setting a new single-day high on Tuesday with more than 2,550 new infections reported, even as provincial labs processed far fewer test specimens than normal. “Today, there are 895 new cases in Toronto, 496 in Peel, 147 in Windsor-Essex County, 144 in Hamilton and 142 in York Region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote on Twitter.
Ontario reported 2,142 new cases of COVID-19 on Dec. 26 and 2,159 on Christmas Day, setting a then record-high on Dec. 24 with 2,447. On Monday, provincial labs detected 1,939 new cases, but on Tuesday 2,553 were found, the highest number of cases detected in a single day since the pandemic began in Ontario.
Ontario reported more than 2,100 COVID-19 cases on both Friday and Saturday, with 81 new deaths over that 48-hour period, as the number of patients in intensive care surpassed 300 for the first time. The province detected 2,159 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and 2,142 new cases on Saturday. “Today, there are 541 new cases in Toronto, 344 in Peel, 262 in York Region, 136 in Hamilton and 131 in Windsor-Essex,” Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote on Twitter. Officials said 43 people died of infection on Friday and 38 died on Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths reported since the pandemic began to 4,359. Testing data, usually provided by Ontario Health, was unavailable for Friday and Saturday.
Last Updated Wednesday, December 23, 2020 10:31AM EST Provincial health officials are reporting more than 2,400 new COVID-19 cases today, pushing the seven-day average of daily infections above 2,300 for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Ontario logged 2,408 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, up from the 2,202 confirmed on Tuesday but lower than the record 2,432 cases on Dec. 16. With 56,660 tests processed over the last 24 hours, the per cent positivity rate today is 4.8 per cent, down slightly from 5.1 per cent at this point last week. There has been a notable spike in the seven-day average of new cases week-over-week. The rolling seven-day average of daily infections last Wednesday was 1,962 and just one week later, that number has now climbed to a record 2,304.
Published Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:34AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:58AM EST There are now more COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units than at any other point during the pandemic as concerns continue to mount around the healthcare system’s ability to withstand the strain. The latest Critical Care Services Ontario report obtained by CP24 suggests that were 285 COVID-19 patients in intensive care as of Dec. 21, exceeding the first wave peak of 283 for the first time. Nearly 40 per cent of all COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care as of Dec. 21 were located in the Central health region, which covers a wide swath of territory that includes hospitals in Peel, Halton and York Regions. Another 64 of the COVID patients in the ICU were in Toronto hospitals, including 21 at Toronto General Hospital and 11 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.