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Ontario confirms 1,388 new COVID cases today

There are more than 10,000 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID in the province
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Public Health Ontario has confirmed a record daily case count with 1,388 new cases reported today. 

On Nov. 8 the province reported 1,328 new cases, which until today was the highest ever reported in a single day. 

The province has also reported 15 deaths in the Nov. 10 report, including three people between the ages of 60 and 79 years old, and 12 people over the age of 80 years old. Eleven of the people who died were residents at long-term care facilities in Ontario.

There have been 31 more people hospitalized since yesterday's report and 11 COVID patients have been admitted to intensive care units. 

The province noted 781 recoveries today. 

Of the more than 1,300 cases reported today, 901 are individuals between 20 and 59 years old. 

According to a breakdown of the new cases by health unit, Toronto reported 520, York Region reported 100, Peel reported 395, and Halton Region reported 72 of today's cases.

There are 159 new school-related cases reported today, including 103 student cases, 23 staff cases and 33 unidentified cases. There have been 2,865 school-related cases reported by the province so far, and 936 of those have been reported in the last 14 days. There are three schools closed because of COVID cases and 601 schools across the province currently have at least one reported COVID case.

Provincial public health labs processed 29,125 COVID-19 tests since yesterday's report, and there are 27,802 tests awaiting processing. 

The number of tests completed has been gradually decreasing since the beginning of October, but the percentage of positive results has been increasing. As of data collected yesterday, approximately five per cent of the people who are tested for COVID-19 test positive. 

Currently, there are 10,106 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. Of those 422 people are hospitalized, including 82 COVID patients in intensive care and 54 COVID patients on ventilators. 

To date, the province has confirmed 86,783 cases of COVID-19, and reported 73,417 recoveries and 3,260 deaths. 

The average incidence rate in Ontario is 583.8 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people. 

In the local region, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported a total of 1,544 cases of COVID-19, with 1,462 of those in Simcoe County. There are 1,323 cases listed as recovered in the region. Six people are currently hospitalized. The health unit has recorded 50 deaths.

The incidence rate for Simcoe County is 277 cases per 100,000 people.

Case breakdown from Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit by municipality for Simcoe County as of Nov. 9

Municipality Total cases** Recoveries Deaths In Hospital Last case reported Incidence rate*
Barrie ~ 470 409 14   Nov. 9 315
Bradford W-G  264 221 12   Nov. 9 614
New Tecumseth  275 218 12 2 Nov. 9 664
Innisfil 130 115 1 2 Nov. 9 319
Orillia 29 26 3   Oct. 30 87
Collingwood 20 19     Nov. 2 83
Wasaga Beach 32 28 1   Nov. 9 139
Clearview 30 25 1   Nov. 9 203
Springwater 22 21 1   Oct. 27 105
Midland 15 13   1 Nov. 9 84
Oro-Medonte 21 17 2   Oct. 29 90
Adjala-Tosorontio 25 23     Nov. 2 215
Essa 51 42 1 1 Nov. 9 213
Ramara ~ 15 14     Nov. 6 173
Tiny 13 13     Nov. 4 99
Tay 23 15     Nov. 4 190
Penetanguishene 18 16 1   Nov. 3 175
Severn 9 9     Oct. 21 60
Georgian Bay 8 8     Oct. 22 not released

~ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit Nov. 9: 3 cases previously assigned to Ramara were removed as they were determined to be duplicate entries and 1 case previously assigned to Barrie was removed as it was re-assigned to a different Public Health Unit.    

*Incidence rate is number of cases per 100,000 people in the local population.

**Total cases includes the number of cases currently recovering at home as well as any that have recovered, died, or are in hospital


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Erika Engel

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Erika regularly covers all things news in Collingwood as a reporter and editor. She has 15 years of experience as a local journalist
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