Ontario health officials recorded 344 new cases of COVID-19 Friday morning, an increase of 1.2 per cent over the previous day, as well as 15 deaths.
This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in the province to 29,747, including 2,372 deaths and 23,583 resolved cases.
This is the third straight day the province has recorded more than 300 cases, down from the more than 400 cases reported on Monday and Tuesday., the highest number of deceased patients in a single day since May 29.shows that 1,646 people 80 years of age or older have died as a result of the novel coronavirus, the hardest hit age group since the start of the pandemic in mid-January. There have been 623 deaths in people between the ages of 60 and 79.
Ninety-three other deceased patients in the province were between the ages of 40 and 59 and 10 people were between the ages of 20 and 39.The province conducted 20,730 tests for the virus in the last 24 hour period, the second day in a row that more than 20,000 tests have been performed. The number of tests processed in a single day continues to climb from the 17,537 tests reported on Wednesday and the 15,244 reported on Tuesday.
Overall, the province has completed 809,053 tests since the pandemic began with 12,246 samples currently under investigation.
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