Ontario’s COVID-19 daily cases have once again topped previous daily records with another 462 reported today.
The total number of lab-confirmed cases for the province is now 3,255. Previously, the highest daily total of cases reported was 426 on April 1.
Since Friday, March 27, there have been 2,262 more COVID-19 cases reported in the province.
There are now 1,023 cases resolved and 67 reported deaths in Ontario. There have been 66,753 people tested in Ontario and there are 1,245 tests still in progress.
According to the Ontario stats on the virus, there are 462 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and 194 of those are in an intensive care unit. There are 140 COVID-19 patients currently on a ventilator in an Ontario health care facility.
The numbers reported by Ontario Health today reflect data collected up to 4 p.m. yesterday.
The Porcupine Health Unit region currently has 28 positive COVID-19, with the details of five new cases being reported this morning.
As of this morning, the health unit is aware of 387 tests submitted locally. Of those, 28 have been positive and 314 were negative. They are waiting on the results of 45 tests. Five positive cases have been resolved.
Around noon today, Premier Doug Ford is scheduled to deliver the province’s modelling data to let Ontarians in on the best and worst-case scenarios predicted for the COVID-19 pandemic in the province.
Three weeks ago, federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu estimated that 30 to 70 per cent of Canadians could become infected, which is somewhere between 11 and 26 million people.
She said the number of deaths as a result of the virus would depend on how many get sick all at the same time and to what degree those patients overwhelm Canada’s health system.
