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Ontario reports 1,273 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths

After three days of daily cases below 1,100, Ontario is reporting 1,273 new cases of COVID-19 and 14 new deaths on May 28.

The province detected 1,135 new cases on Thursday, 1,095 cases on Wednesday and 1,039 on Tuesday. The seven-day average has dropped to 1,441, which is down from 2,064 last Friday.

“Locally, there are 269 new cases in Toronto, 268 in Peel, 101 in Ottawa, 78 in Hamilton and 72 in Durham,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.

The province administered 159,775 additional doses of the vaccine over the past day, bringing the provincial total to 8,690,473 doses administered and 624,920 people who are fully vaccinated.

Labs in the province completed 37,705 tests in the past day, making for a positivity rate of 3.6 per cent, down from 5.7 per cent last Thursday.

There are 1,023 patients currently in hospital due to the virus, down 49 from the day before. Patients in intensive care have decreased by five to 645, including 403 patients on ventilators.

Of the deaths reported today, three were people between the ages of 40 and 59.

To date, there have been 528,453 total COVID-19 cases in Ontario and 8,711 deaths.


New COVID-19 cases in Ontario on May 28

The following regions reported five or more new COVID-19 cases:

Toronto = 269

Peel = 268

Ottawa = 101

City of Hamilton = 78

Durham Region = 72

York Region = 56

Niagara Region = 55

Halton Region = 51

Region of Waterloo = 46

Middlesex-London = 39

Simcoe Muskoka District = 28

Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge = 27

Windsor-Essex County = 25

Porcupine = 22

Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph = 22

Thunder Bay District = 16

Brant County = 15

Peterborough = 14

Eastern Ontario = 13

Lambton = 13

Huron Perth = 12

Hastings Prince Edward = 8

Haldimand-Norfolk = 7

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