Ontario logs 138 new cases of COVID-19, one death

There are now four active cases in Northeastern Ontario

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After a spike yesterday, Public Health Ontario is reporting 138 new COVID-19 cases in the province today; that represents a .4% increase in the overall number of cases. On Friday, authorities reported the number of new cases was 195.

There was just one death reported today. In addition, 140 more cases have been resolved in the past 24 hours.

In total, there have been 38,543 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province since the pandemic began. Almost 89% of those cases have been resolved.

More than 29,000 tests for the coronavirus were conducted yesterday alone, bringing the total number of tests past the two-million mark.

Public Health Ontario reported today that tests, to-date, since the onset of the pandemic, now total 2,018,813.

Public Health Ontario has reported 2,759 deaths of people with COVID-19, including 1,791 residents of long-term care homes and eight long-term care health workers. Seven per cent of all Ontario cases reported have ended in death.

There are 1,547 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province based on Public Health Ontario's epidemiological report. Of those, 97 people are currently hospitalized with 30 patients in intensive care and 21 patients on ventilators.

Northeastern Ontario now has four active cases of the 357 confirmed, following 341 recoveries, and 12 deaths. A total of 114,114 tests have been conducted in the region to determine these findings, including 21,132 in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts and the Porcupine Health Unit, are now the only two health units in the region with active cases in its service area.

The total number of COVID-19 cases, recoveries, and deaths reported across the region at the time of this writing are as follows: