COVID-19 cases continue to climb as region comes under stay-at-home order Shares As the province’s new state of emergency comes into effect, the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Waterloo Region. The impact of the stay-at-home order will likely take at least a couple of weeks to determine. As of today (Friday), there were 1,045 active cases of Sars-COV2, bringing the cumulative total throughout the pandemic to 8,088. Of those, 6,862 cases have been resolved (84.8 per cent). There have been 179 fatalities linked to the virus. “These indicators show that our situation locally is quite serious. In the coming weeks, we will see trends provincial measures in our own individual actions are working to bring COVID-19 under control,” said medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang during Friday’s weekly community update.