Ontario records more than 300 new COVID-19 cases for third straight day, 17 more deaths
TORONTO -- Ontario has once again recorded more than 300 new patients with COVID-19, but the cases come as provincial labs completed a record number of tests.
The new patients bring the total number of lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province to 27,533, including 2,247 deaths and 21,353 recoveries.The province reported a record-breaking number of COVID-19 tests completed in a single day with 20,640 tests being done, which marks the lowest positivity rates that the province has seen so far. It means that just over 1.5 per cent of all samples tested were positive for the disease.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford had been urging residents who are asymptomatic and who think they may have been exposed to the disease to contact an assessment centre to get tested. According to Saturday's epidemiological summary, eight of Ontario's deceased COVID-19 patients were between the ages of 20 and 39. Eighty-nine of all deceased patients in the province were between the ages of 40 and 59 and 590 people were between the ages of 60 and 79.People 80 years of age or older continue to be the hardest hit age group with 1,560 deaths.
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