Ontario Public Health announced its highest daily figure for positive COVID-19 cases with 732 reported today.
There have now been 52,980 lab-confirmed cases in the province, of which 44,850 people have recovered, including 428 patients since yesterday's report.
However, not all the new cases are from the past 24 hours, Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted this morning. She said in reviewing its data, Toronto Public Health found cases and deaths from the summer that had gone unreported, so today's total includes both new cases and older data just released.
There are currently 5,203 active cases in Ontario.
There have also been two more fatalities linked to the virus, bringing the death toll to 2,927. According to Ontario Public Health, there were 74 deaths reported for cases that occurred in the spring or summer that are now being recorded as part of a "data review and data cleaning initiative."
Approximately two-thirds of all deaths in Ontario (1,909) have occurred in long-term care facilities.
Earlier this week, the province hit a high-water mark for new daily cases with 700 announced on Monday. That number fell to 554 on Tuesday, jumped again to 625 on Wednesday before dropping to 538 on Thursday.
Since yesterday's report, 40,093 new tests have been completed in the previous 24-hour period, bringing the provincial total to more than four million now. Of those, 90,513 remain under investigation.
There are 167 hospitalized with COVID-19, 38 of whom are in intenstive care. Twenty-one patients are on ventilators, which is an increase of four since yesterday.
There are 33 active cases across the North. The breakdown for Northern Ontario health units is:
- Algoma Public Health: 33 cases, rate of 28 per 100,000 population. There are three known active cases.
- North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 40 cases, rate of 29.3 per 100,000 population. There are no known active case.
- Porcupine Health Unit: 84, rate of 99.5 per 100,000 population. There are four known active cases.
- Public Health Sudbury and Districts: 108 cases, rate of 53.3 per 100,000 population. There are six known active cases.
- Timiskaming Health Unit: 18 cases, rate of 55.1 per 100,000. There are two known active cases.
- Northwestern Health Unit: 65 cases, rate of 58.2 per 100,000. There are 16 known active cases.
- Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 107 cases, rate of 70.7 per 100,000. There are two known active cases.
**Sudbury.com has updated the headline to reflect the fact a number of the cases counted today are actually from the summer. In reviewing its data, Toronto Public Health found it had missed reporting several cases and deaths, which are appearing as part of today's announcement.
