Ontario reporting decrease in COVID-19 cases, more than 1,000 infections again
Posted November 9, 2020 10:15 am.
Last Updated November 9, 2020 3:43 pm.
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Ontario is reporting 1,242 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, and 12 deaths.
This comes after the province broke record high cases over the weekend, when Sunday saw 1,328 new infections, and 1,132 on Saturday.
Compared to the day before, Monday’s new cases saw a 6.5 per cent decrease, and a 7.7 per cent drop in the number of deaths.
Monday’s new case number brings the seven-day average of new infections to 1105.7, and the seven-day resolved case average total to 889.9
28,401 tests have been completed, with a positivity rate of five per cent — meaning out of those tests, five per cent tested positive. That per cent is up 0.8 compared to Sunday, and the number of tests is down 9,176.
Toronto is leading in new infections reported on Monday with 483 cases, up from 434 compared to the day before.
York Region is seeing two more new cases with 107, Ottawa is reporting three new cases with 74, and Middlesex-London jumped to 37 from zero.
Peel Region is reporting a drop from 385 cases on Sunday to 279 Monday.
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Hamilton is also seeing a decrease with 57 new cases, down from 68, Durham dropped from 56 cases on Sunday to 14 on Monday, and Halton has 37 new cases, down from 43.
The province’s schools are reporting 79 new cases. 39 of those cases are linked to students, 13 to staff, and 27 are unidentified.
You can find which schools are reporting cases on the province’s website, when it is updated daily at 10:30 a.m.
821 more cases have been resolved in the province. There is now a total of 85,395 confirmed infections of the virus to date.
