BREAKING: Ontario reports 122 new COVID-19 cases, on testing volume of nearly 32,000, approaching record
"Locally, 29 of Ontario’s 34 public health units are reporting five or fewer cases, with 17 reporting no new cases," Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.
Eighty-three people recovered from infection in the past 24 hours, leading to a net increase of active cases of 33.Yesterday public health officials said Ontario as a whole has reported only four to five deaths each week for much of the summer. There are now a total of 1,103 active cases of novel coronavirus infection in the province, with 38,023 recoveries and 2,809 centrally-confirmed deaths.Meanwhile, a leading provincial epidemiologist says the slow creep upward of cases in the province is concerning.
He said that much attention must be paid to the Rt or reproductive rate of the virus, which calculates the average number of cases generated by each new infected person. A number anywhere above one indicates future infection growth.
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