Ontario is reporting a slight increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases.
Health officials recorded 130 new cases of the disease on Saturday, bringing the provincial total to 36,594. , a 0.4% increase as the province processed over 29,500 tests. With 267 resolved, there are 137 fewer active cases in the province for a total of 1,462 currently active cases in Ontario.The province also added six COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 2,716.Officials confirmed an additional 116 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday.
Of the new cases in Ontario, 82 are between the ages of 20 and 59. There are 20 patients who are 19 years old or younger and 28 patients who are over the age of 59. The majority of total deaths to date have been reported in people over the age of 79. One person under the age of 19 who had COVID-19 has died in Ontario, but it is not clear if the death was caused by the disease or other health issues.
Eleven patients who died were between the ages of 20 and 39, while 111 were between the ages of 40 and 59, and 722 were between the ages of 60 and 79.In the last 24 hours, just over 29,500 COVID-19 tests were conducted by officials. Ontario health officials have conducted more than 1.6 million tests for the disease since the pandemic was declared.
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