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Ontario, active cases are close to 5 thousand

TORONTO – A hundred fewer cases. Today’s figure of infections in Ontario reassures a little: 552 new infections from Covid-19, down from the disturbing 666 on Sunday but still up from 480 a week ago. In any case, today’s total represents the highest number of cases since last September 27 when 613 new infections were reported. Not only that: the active cases are close to 5 thousand. (more…)

Covid-19 in Ontario, more than three thousand cases still active

TORONTO – 340 new cases of Covid-19 and 2 other deaths, today, in Ontario. All in all a positive figure, given that there were 419 cases on Friday and 356 on Saturday: after a few days of ascent, therefore, the infections seem to return to decline. The seven-day moving average is now 349, down from Saturday (353). The provincial laboratories processed 25,707 test samples, so the positivity rate is 1.7%.  (more…)