Public Health Ontario has confirmed 409 new cases of COVID and one death today.
The province confirmed the death of one person between the ages of 60 and 79 years old, who had been confirmed positive for COVID.
Included among today's cases are 64 people aged 19 and under, 195 people aged 20 to 39 years old, 91 people between 40 and 59 years old, 41 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 18 people aged 80 and over.
According to a breakdown of cases by health unit, 313 of today's cases (77 per cent) were reported by four of Ontario's 34 health units. Toronto reported 151 new cases, York reported 34 new cases, Peel reported 46 new, cases and Ottawa reported 82 new cases.
Testing continues to climb with 30,634 tests reported processed, though an outage in the provincial reporting system yesterday means there were likely more tests processed. There are currently 53,840 tests awaiting processing. The province has now completed 3.68 million COVID tests since January.
To date, the province has confirmed 48,496 cases of COVID-19, and has reported 41,886 of those cases as recovered. Of the total lab-confirmed cases, 2,836 have ended in death.
There are 17 known active cases in Northern Ontario.
The breakdown for the health units is:
• Algoma Public Health - 31 cases, rate of 27.1 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 32 cases. There are two known active cases.
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit - 38 cases, rate of 29.3 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 40 cases. There are two known active cases.
• Porcupine Health Unit - 81, rate of 97.1 per 100,000 population. There are five known active cases.
• Public Health Sudbury and Districts - 102 cases, rate of 51.3 per 100,000 population. There are three known active cases.
• Timiskaming Health Unit - 18 cases, rate of 55.1 per 100,000. The health unit has reported 19 cases. There are no known active cases.
• Northwestern Health Unit - 49 cases, rate of 55.9 per 100,000. There are three known active cases.
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit - 106 cases, rate of 70.7 per 100,000. There are two known active cases.
The Ontario rate of infection per 100,000 population is 326.3.
