COVID-19: Ontario reports 169 new cases, highest since mid-July
TORONTO, ON., Sept. 5, 2020 — Today the province saw another jump in COVID-19 cases from 148 yesterday to 169. This marks the highest number of infections that have been reported since July 15, 2020. In June, Ontario was reporting daily numbers well above 300.
The case numbers have been edging steadily upwards for a few weeks now. This past week the province reported 858 new cases while last week it was 726, and the week before that 624 infections were reported.
On a brighter note, in Ontario there have been zero COVID-19 related deaths in five days.
Meanwhile, there are now 1,345 total active COVID-19 cases in Ontario.
Of the 169 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Ontario today, 46 were in Peel Region, 42 were in Toronto, 30 were in Ottawa, 19 were in York Region and only 6 in Durham. 19 Ontario public health regions have reported zero cases today while the remaining 9 reported fewer than 5 infections.
There are 58 people currently admitted to Ontario hospitals with COVID-19, while 14 are in ICU and 8 are on ventilators.
In total, Ontario has reported 43,003 cases of COVID-19 of which 38,847 have been resolved. In Ontario there have been 2,811 COVID-19 related deaths. Toronto Public Health has reported 14,995 total cases while Peel has reported the second highest number with 7,381 COVID-19 cases.
But yesterday Peel had reported 72 new COVID-19 cases and this has raised a flag with Premier Doug Ford.
Ontario’s Premier addressed the spike in Peel on Friday, saying “When Brampton makes up three per cent of the population but 40 per cent of the cases yesterday that is concerning and I keep seeing this escalating.”
The rise in numbers is particularly concerning with the prospect of some millions of children returning to school over the next few weeks.
The daily summary is based on data reported by public health units across Ontario. Data for each day’s summary will be pulled from the province’s integrated Public Health Information System iPHIS at 4:00 p.m. the previous day and from the Toronto Public Health Coronavirus Rapid Entry System (CORES) and the Ottawa Public Health COVID-19 Ottawa Database (COD), and Middlesex-London COVID-19 Case and Contact Management tool (CCMtool) as of as of as of 2:00 p.m. the previous day.
SOURCE Government of Ontario
