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Ontario reports 2,199 new COVID-19 cases and 30 deaths
Ontario is reporting 2,199 new cases of COVID-19 and 30 deaths on May 16.
The province detected 2,584 new cases on Saturday, 2,362 on Friday and 2,759 on Thursday. Ontario has a seven-day rolling average of 2,430, down from 3,120 last Sunday.
“Locally, there are 633 new cases in Toronto, 547 in Peel, 172 in York Region, 143 in Durham and 129 in Hamilton,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.
However, the province only completed 33,142 tests in the past 24 hours, marking a 6.8 per cent positivity rate according to Public Health Ontario. The positivity rate last Sunday was 7.1 per cent.
The province also administered an additional 139,583 doses of the vaccine, higher than the province’s usual end-of-week supply. That brings Ontario’s total to more than seven million – 7,064,815 doses of the vaccine administered and 429,636 people fully vaccinated.
Active cases dropped by almost 1,000 to 26,656 today, including 1,292 people hospitalized – down 254 from the day before. There are currently 785 patients in intensive care, with 552 patients on ventilators.
Of the deaths reported today, one was someone between the ages of 20 and 39 and five were people between the ages of 40 and 59.
To date, there have been 509,316 total COVID-19 cases in Ontario and 8,485 deaths.
New COVID-19 cases in Ontario on May 16
The following regions reported five or more new COVID-19 cases:
Toronto = 633
Peel = 547
York Region = 172
Durham Region = 143
City of Hamilton = 129
Ottawa = 74
Halton Region = 74
Niagara Region = 59
Windsor-Essex County = 50
Region of Waterloo = 48
Middlesex-London = 43
Simcoe Muskoka District = 42
Porcupine = 37
Brant County = 18
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph = 18
Southwestern = 14
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge = 13
Haldimand-Norfolk = 11
Eastern Ontario = 10
Hastings Prince Edward = 9
Huron Perth = 7
Lambton = 7
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington = 6
Renfrew County and District = 6
Peterborough = 6
Sudbury & Districts = 5
