Ontario Public Health has reported 564 more confirmed cases of COVID-19, which is the highest number of cases confirmed in a single day so far.
Today also marks the highest increase in deaths with 55 more reported by the province, bringing the Ontario death toll attributed to COVID-19 to 478.
Testing has also increased, with the province reporting 8,899 tests completed yesterday.
York Region has 905 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 22 new cases yesterday, April 16, and 45 deaths.
Like many communities across the province, York Region is grappling with increasing COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths at its long-term care and group homes.
There is a swath of outbreaks across the entire region — at 13 long-term care homes and 11 community care settings in Newmarket, Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, Richmond Hill, Markham and Vaughan.
In Ontario, the additional cases reported today represent a 6.3 per cent increase in new cases, which is consistent with the percentage increase each day this week. The daily case numbers have been increasing since Sunday, when the province reported 401 new cases. Yesterday, the province reported 494 new cases and 9,000 tests processed.
Here are the numbers for Ontario:
- The total number of cases confirmed in the province is 9,525;
- 5,993 tests are awaiting results.
- 106 outbreaks at long-term care homes and 30 outbreaks at hospitals;
- 1,229 residents at long-term care facilities have COVID-19, and 216 have died;
- The previous highest daily total report was March 8, with 552 new cases;
- 4,556 recoveries;
- 478 deaths;
- 829 patients are hospitalized, 245 of those are in intensive care units;
- 200 COVID-19 patients are on ventilators;
- average infection rate is 64.1 per 100,000 people, an increase from 60 per 100,000 yesterday.
Of all the lab-confirmed cases in Ontario, 12.6 per cent are associated with travel, 17.6 per cent were close-contact cases, and 26.5 per cent were deemed community transmission. Transmission information is still pending for 43.3 per cent of the cases.
— With files from Debora Kelly
