“i would say i’m supportive of policies that will increase people being protected,” dr. barbara yaffe, ontario’s associate chief medical officer of health said tuesday in response to a media question about seneca’s new policy.
latest covid-19 data in ontario
ontario reported 153 additional cases of covid-19 tuesday, bringing the seven-day average for new cases to 164 daily – down from 216 a week ago.
seven additional covid-19-linked deaths were added to the provincial total, which sits at 9,265 lives lost since the pandemic began. the number of covid-19 patients in icu testing positive sits at 133, down from 163 a week ago. the latest icu figure rises to 180, if you include those no longer testing positive.
in terms of active cases, the hardest-hit regions are waterloo (46 active cases per 100,000 people), grey bruce (39 per 100,000), porcupine (23), wellington-dufferin-guelph (18) and hamilton (15). ottawa, comparatively, has three active cases per 100,000, according to provincial reporting.
in eastern ontario, confirmed case counts rose by one each in kingston, frontenac and lennox & addington and hastings prince edward, were unchanged in renfrew county and district, leeds, grenville & lanark, and the eastern ontario health unit region.