Ontario is reporting 1,396 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, down from Thursday’s all-time high of 1,575. Ontario recorded 19 deaths in the past 24 hours, 10 among long-term care residents. The province completed 40,509 tests in the past 24 hours. Some 3.4 per cent of those were positive.
The province has seen daily case counts over 1,000 for over a week now, prompting worst-case scenario projections from public health researchers of over 6,000 daily new cases by mid-December.
Ontario’s seven-day rolling average continues to grow, up to an average of 1,355 per day.
The province has reached 11,620 active cases, 452 of those in hospital with 106 patients in intensive care. Sixty-seven of those patients are on ventilators.
Minister of Long-term Care Merrilee Fullerton said on Twitter that there are outbreaks among staff in 42 homes but with no resident cases in the home. There are 26 homes with resident cases, most of those with 5 or fewer.
There have been 91,180 total COVID-19 cases in Ontario, including 76,238 resolved. There have been 3,312 deaths to date.
New COVID-19 cases in Ontario by region on November 13
Peel – 440
Toronto – 440
York Region – 155
Halton Region – 55
City of Hamilton – 43
Region of Waterloo – 43
Ottawa – 41
Durham Region – 41
Simcoe Muskoka – 27
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph – 19
Windsor-Essex County – 17
Niagara Region – 12
Brant County – 10
Huron Perth – 9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox &
Addington – 6
Sudbury & Districts – 6
