Ontario reported 1,249 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths on November 17.
Toronto reported the most new infections in the past 24-hours. However, the number includes around 40 underreported cases from Toronto Public Health on November 14, meaning today’s count is an overestimation.
“Locally, there are 569 new cases in Toronto, 256 in Peel and 94 in York Region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter. “There are 1,135 more resolved cases and nearly 26,500 tests completed.”
The seven-day rolling average for new cases has dropped to 1,423. The total number of active cases in the province is 12,932.
The province confirmed 1,487 cases on Monday, 1,248 cases on Sunday, a record high of 1,581 cases on Saturday, 1,396 infections on Friday and 1,575 on Thursday.
Testing in the province is far below capacity of 50,000 per day.
Labs in the province completed 26,468 tests in the past 24 hours, with almost as many specimens waiting to be processed in a backlog. The testing positivity rate is 4.7 per cent.
Hospitalizations continue to rise. There are 529 patients in hospital, including 127 in intensive care and 75 on ventilators.
Four more long-term care homes have reported outbreaks, bringing the total to 96. There are also four more outbreaks in retirement homes, for a total of 63.
To date, there have been 96,745 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ontario. Of those, 80,430 are resolved and 3,383 people have died.
New COVID-19 cases in Ontario on November 17
The following regions reported five or more cases of COVID-19:
Toronto = 569
Peel Region = 256
York Region = 94
Durham Region = 69
Halton Region = 58
Region of Waterloo = 42
Niagara Region = 27
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph = 22
Simcoe Muskoka = 19
City of Hamilton = 19
Windsor-Essex = 16
Ottawa = 11
Thunder Bay = 9
Brant County = 9
Chatham-Kent = 6
Southwestern = 6
Eastern Ontario = 5
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington = 5
