ontario is reporting 112 new patients with covid-19 symptoms in the province’s hospitals on wednesday, a one-day rise of 41 cases.
overall new cases continue to drop. the province said there were 129 new cases reported for a total of 551,125 cases since the pandemic began.
there were also 11 new deaths for a total of 9,360.
the number of people in icu with covid-19 related conditions were up slightly to 108, while the number of patients on ventilator rose to 76.
the province administered 60,094 doses of vaccine tuesday, for a total of 19,652,011.
ontario said there had been no new cases in ottawa in the last reporting period. ottawa public health reports its statistics later in the day. these can vary from the provincial tally because the data are collected later in the day.
the province’s hot spots continue to be toronto, with 26 new case, waterloo region with 19, 18 in peel region, 15 in york region and 12 in hamilton.
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a new poll suggests more canadians believe the worst of the covid-19 pandemic has not passed as concerns rise about a fourth wave of infections driven by the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.
fifty-four per cent of respondents to an online survey by leger and the association for canadian studies say the worst of the covid-19 crisis is already over, compared with 63 per cent who believed so in a survey last month.