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Northern Ontario has five known active cases of COVID-19

Ontario confirms 118 new COVID-19 cases today and one new death from the disease
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Public Health Ontario has confirmed 118 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death today. 

A person over 80 years old has died with COVID-19. There have now been 1,918 people aged 80 and over who have died with the coronavirus, which is 31.5 per cent of all cases confirmed in the over-80 age group.

Of today's new cases, four are individuals aged 80 and over, 13 are people aged 60 to 79 years old, 21 are individuals between 40 and 59 years old, 47 are people aged 20 to 39 years old, and 33 are youth aged 19 and under. 

Six of the 34 health units in Ontario have reported more than five new cases in today's summary, and 18 health units have reported zero. Ottawa Public Health reported 22 of today's cases, Peel Public Health reported 19 new cases, and Toronto Public Health reported 36 of today's 118 new cases. 

To-date, the province's public health agency has reported 41,813 lab-confirmed cases of the coronavirus, and has indicated 37,940 of those cases are now recovered. Of the total cases confirmed, 2,803 have ended in death. 

Based in information provided by the province in today's epidemiological report, there are now 1,070 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. Forty-eight people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, including 18 patients in intensive care and 10 patients on ventilators. 

Ontario reported 28,625 tests have been processed since yesterday's update. In total, provincial labs have completed more than 2.8 million COVID-19 tests.

In Northern Ontario there are five known active cases.

The breakdown for the health units is:

  • Algoma Public Health: 27 cases, rate of 23.6 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases.
  • North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 35 cases, rate of 27 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 37 cases. There are no known active cases.
  • Porcupine Health Unit: 73, rate of 87.5 per 100,000 population. There is one known active case.
  • Public Health Sudbury and Districts: 94 cases, rate of 47.2 per 100,000 population. There is one known active case.
  • Timiskaming Health Unit: 19 cases, rate of 58.1 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.
  • Northwestern Health Unit: 46 cases, rate of 52.5 per 100,000. The health unit has reported 47 cases. There are two known active cases.
  • Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 103 cases, rate of 68.7 per 100,000. The health unit has reported 104 cases. There is one known active case.

The Ontario rate of infection per 100,000 population is 281.3.


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