Ontario reported 1,003 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the fourth single-day increase the province has seen above 1,000. The province is reporting 14 deaths. Of those, 8 were among long-term care residents.
Minister of Long-term Care Merrilee Fullerton wrote on Twitter that there are 86 homes in the province with outbreaks. Of those, 47 involve COVID cases among staff. There are 39 homes with resident cases of which 19 have fewer than 5 cases, Fullerton reports.
The province previously reached a record high of 1,050 new cases on Tuesday, 1,015 on October 31 and 1,042 on October 25. Ontario hit 998 new cases on Thursday, and 987 cases on Wednesday. The province’s seven-day rolling average hit 997 cases, up almost 100 from the previous week’s average.
There are currently 8,398 active cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. Some 380 of those are patients in the hospital, down one from yesterday. Of those patients, 86 are in intensive care and 49 are on ventilators.
The province completed 41,268 tests in the past 24 hours. Some 2.4 per cent of those were positive. The testing backlog now stands at 47,074.
New cases of COVID-19 in Ontario on November 6
The following regions reported five or more case of COVID-19:
Toronto – 300
Peel – 280
York Region – 125
Ottawa – 43
Halton Region – 41
Region of Waterloo – 34
City of Hamilton – 32
Niagara Region – 26
Durham Region – 24
Middlesex-London – 16
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph – 15
Simcoe Muskoka – 14
Windsor-Essex – 11
Brant County – 11
Eastern Ontario – 9
Sudbury & Districts – 7
