Ontario has confirmed another 31 COVID-19 deaths, which is the highest number added to the provincial tally in more than a month.
The latest deaths were reported by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday morning, pushing Ontario’s death toll over the two-year life of the pandemic to 12,889.
“We are headed in the right direction but there is still a lot of COVID out there. It is getting better but it is still there. So I think it is a very reasonable thing to put on a mask on in a public indoor setting, like a supermarket, to help protect yourself and those around you,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch warned during an interview with CP24 on Wednesday morning. “This wave is going to abate and things will get better in the week or two ahead.
The positivity rate on PCR test over the last seven days now stands at 13.9 per cent. It was 15.8 per cent last week. He said that COVID “is not going away unfortunately” but should be more manageable as Ontario emerges from the sixth wave of the pandemic.
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