{"id":63097,"date":"2020-06-26T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=63097"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:38:01","slug":"ontario-reports-fewest-new-covid-19-cases-since-march-25-while-testing-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/ontario-reports-fewest-new-covid-19-cases-since-march-25-while-testing-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario reports fewest new COVID-19 cases since March 25 while testing hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ontario reported 111 additional cases of COVID-19 on Friday\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the fewest new cases on a single day since March 25 \u2014while testing reached a record high, the Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n
The 0.3 per cent increase in\u00a0cases is the lowest daily growth rate since the province’s outbreak peaked, and means Ontario has now seen a total of 34,316 infections of the novel coronavirus since late January.<\/p>\n Of those, nearly 87 per cent are resolved. Another 226 cases were marked resolved since the province’s last update.<\/p>\n There are now fewer than 2,000 active cases provincewide for the first time since the early weeks of the outbreak.<\/p>\n Twenty-eight of Ontario’s 34 public health units reported five or fewer new cases, Health Minister Christine Elliott said in a series of tweets this morning. Of those 28, 19 reported no new cases at all.<\/p>\n Windsor-Essex, which has struggled to contain outbreaks among\u00a0migrant farm workers in the\u00a0Leamington and Kingsville\u00a0areas, confirmed six new cases. Toronto and Peel Region combined for a total of 59, while another 13 were reported in York.<\/p>\n The five-day rolling average of new daily cases, a measure that smoothes peaks and valleys in data, has been on the decline in the last week.<\/p>\n Further, Ontario’s network of about 30 community, commercial and hospital labs processed 30,780 COVID-19 test samples yesterday, the most ever in a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the number of patients in Ontario hospitals with confirmed cases of COVID-19 dropped again, and remains at the lowest level since the province began reporting that data in early April.<\/p>\n The number of those being treated in intensive care units and with ventilators also both declined.<\/p>\n “While very welcome news, we shouldn’t draw too many conclusions from one day of data. Rather, we’ll continue to keep a close eye on what is hopefully the continuation of our downward trend,” Elliott said.<\/p>\n Ontario’s official COVID-19 death toll grew by, up to 2644. A CBC News count based on data provided directly by public health units, which avoids lag time in reporting, puts the real toll at 2,690.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n CBC<\/p>\n