additionally, the transfer co-payment in such situations would be waived.
ontario reported 3,480 new covid-19 cases on wednesday, and 24 new deaths.
toronto, with 961 new cases, peel, with 589, and niagara, with 341 were the province’s worst-hit regions. york reported 290 new cases, while hamilton’s case count increased by 255
there were 180 new confirmed cases in ottawa, according to public health ontario, bringing the city’s total to 23,801 since the pandemic’s start. due to different data-collection times, those figures may not match those issued later in the day by ottawa public health. ontario also reported 2,857 confirmed cases of the b.1.1.7 variant (which originated in the uk) in ottawa, and seven of the b.1.351 variant (which originated in south africa).
in other health units in the capital region, leeds, grenville and lanark reported 12 new cases, while kingston confirmed eight more. eastern ontario health unit, which includes cornwall and hawkesbury, saw its case numbers go up by 19, while renfrew county and district reported three new cases.
the new figures raise ontario’s total number of covid cases since january 2020 to 455,606 and its death toll to 7,988.
there are 2,281 covid patients currently in ontario hospitals, 877 of them in icu with covid-related illnesses and 605 on ventilators.