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Ontario reports 57 new COVID cases, but removes 24 old cases

'Routine data clean up' meant 24 previously-reported cases were removed from cumulative count, bringing it down to 33 new cases
Erika Engel
Erika Engel
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Public Health Ontario reported 57 new COVID cases today and has also removed 24 previously-reported cases from the cumulative case count.

According to a Tweet by Ontario's health minister, Christine Elliott, a "routine data cleanup" revealed some cases had been double reported and that resulted in Toronto Public Health reporting a negative case report of -21 cases today. Three more health units reported -1 case. 

Although there were 57 more positive results reported by the province's regional health units, the 24 cases removed brought the net case increase down to 33.

There were no new deaths reported today. 

Windsor-Essex County reported the highest case increase with 10 new cases included in today's epidemiology summary. Peel and Ottawa both reported seven new cases and Southwestern (Oxford, Elgin, St. Thomas) reported eight new cases. 

Based on the information included in the provincial summary, there are 952 active cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, including 60 individuals who are hospitalized with the coronavirus. There are 21 COVID patients in intensive care units and 12 patients on ventilators. 

To date, Public Health Ontario has reported 40,194 cases of COVID-19, with 36,456 of those cases (90.7 per cent) now listed as recovered, and 2,786 cases (6.9 per cent) ending in death.

Since yesterday's report, the province reported 21,581 more COVID tests have been completed. 

  • Algoma Public Health: 27 cases, rate of 23.6 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases.
  • North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 37 cases, rate of 27 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases.
  • Porcupine Health Unit: 72, rate of 86.3 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases. 
  • Public Health Sudbury and Districts: 92 cases, rate of 45.2 per 100,000 population. There are 19 known active cases. 
  • Timiskaming Health Unit: 19 cases, rate of 58.1 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.
  • Northwestern Health Unit: 44 cases, rate of 50.2 per 100,000. There is one known active case.
  • Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 100 cases, rate of 66 per 100,000. There are three known active cases.