Ontario’s 7-day average of COVID-19 cases climbs
Posted November 29, 2021 10:20 am.
Last Updated November 29, 2021 4:37 pm.
Ontario is reporting 788 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. That’s down from 964 on Sunday, but the seven-day moving average continues its concerning rise.
It now sits at 784, compared to 761 on Sunday.
The upward trend in cases comes as health officials grapple with news that the new highly-transmissible omicron variant was detected in two people in Ottawa who had recently been in Nigeria.
On Monday morning, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, said four more suspected cases of omicron are being investigated — two in Ottawa and two in Hamilton.
The federal government on Friday barred visitors from seven southern African countries in an effort to prevent the variant from crossing into Canada, but Nigeria was not among them.
#COVID19Ontario:
Daily new cases vs. test % positivity in #Ontario
Line = 7 day moving average. #COVIDー19 #onhealth pic.twitter.com/INPdahLO4W— Dr. Jennifer Kwan (@jkwan_md) November 29, 2021
According to Public Health Ontario data, the 5 to 11 age group has the most new cases of COVID-19. A vaccine for that cohort was recently approved by Health Canada and last week Toronto became the first city in Canada to start doling out the shots to kids.
Dr. Moore said vaccine mandates won’t be enforced for children in that age group.
Rates of recent #COVID19 cases by age group in Ontariohttps://t.co/g6YWWnzzDl pic.twitter.com/IgsdaFlrNu
— Dr. Jennifer Kwan (@jkwan_md) November 29, 2021
Three more deaths have been attributed to the virus and 148 people are in ICU, with 89 on ventilators.
The province says it tested 26,106 people yesterday, for a test positivity rate of 3.5 per cent.
With files from the Canadian Press
