Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case increase is back into the 400s today with 404 new cases reported, which is a 1.5 per cent increase in the total number of cases confirmed in the province.
Last week on Monday (May 25) the province also reported 404 new cases, the fifth in a five-day run of daily increases in the 400s. However, since then daily increases have ranged between 287 and 383 new cases. This is the first day since last Monday the province is reporting an increase in the 400s.
Public Health Ontario is also reporting ten deaths today, including two people between the ages of 40 and 59, seven people between the ages of 60 and 79, and one person over the age of 80.
The province’s public health agency has now reported 2,276 deaths attributed to COVID-19, but the Ministry of Long-Term Care has reported more deaths than are included in the public health report.
The ministry has confirmed 1,648 deaths of residents of long-term care homes and seven staff deaths. The daily epidemiological summaries from Public Health Ontario only include 1,445 resident deaths and six staff deaths.
The ministry reports there are 112 long-term care homes with ongoing outbreaks and 184 homes with resolved outbreaks.
Public Health Ontario confirmed there are also 90 ongoing outbreaks in retirement homes and 47 outbreaks at hospitals. There are another 54 retirement homes with resolved outbreaks and 37 hospitals with resolved outbreaks.
The ministry uses information reported directly from long-term care homes, whereas Public Health Ontario gets its information as it is reported by the regional public health units.
There have been 28,263 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Ontario, and 22,153 people (78.4 per cent) are now reported recovered.
A case is reported as recovered once 14 days have passed since symptom onset and the person is not hospitalized.
There are 781 people hospitalized in the province, including 125 in intensive care units and 89 patients on ventilators.
Public Health Ontario reports there were 14,379 tests processed since the last update.
As of Friday (May 29) afternoon, there have been 468 cases confirmed in the Simcoe-Muskoka region, and 373 people are reported recovered. There have been 36 deaths in the region, and 35 of those occurred in Simcoe County.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is scheduled to provide a regional update today.
In Simcoe County, 356 of the 450 confirmed cases are now reported recovered, and eight people are hospitalized.
An outbreak previously declared over at Owen Hill Care Community in Barrie was reported active again after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus.
All of the people from Muskoka District who tested positive for the coronavirus have now recovered, one man from Muskoka Lakes has died.
The case rate (including lab-confirmed cases only) for the Simcoe-Muskoka region is 78.2 cases per 100,000 population. The provincial average is 190.1 cases per 100,000 population.
