Ontario reports increase in COVID-19 cases, 23 more deaths

Ontario is reporting 1,940 new cases of COVID-19 and nearly 57,100 tests completed on Monday.

This is an increase from the 1,677 new cases reported on Sunday and the highest since the province reported a record 1,983 cases on Thursday.

Completed tests drop for the second straight day and the province’s test positivity rate is 4.6 per cent.

The rolling seven day average now sits at 1,841, down from 1,872 on Friday.

There are 1,535 more resolved cases.

The province is also reporting 23 new deaths.

Of the new deaths, 11 come from residents of long-term care homes. Homes in the province are reporting 79 new cases from residents and and 15 from staff.

There is now a total of 142,121 confirmed cases in the province since the onset of the pandemic with 3,972 deaths. Of the confirmed cases 16,586 are active and 121,563 have been resolved.

Among active cases, 857 people are currently in the hospital. Among the hospitalized, 244 are in the ICU and 149 are on ventilators. The number of ICU patients is down nine from a day ago.

Hospitalizations are up 132 since one week ago.

More than half of new cases come from people under the age of 40 with the 20-39 age group responsible for the most.

Locally in the GTA, there are 544 new cases in Toronto, 390 in Peel, 191 in York Region, 68 in Durham Region and 64 in Halton.

All GTA regions saw an increase in new cases from a day ago except for Durham.

Overall there were 1,257 new cases in the GTA and the region is responsible for 65 per cent of the provincial total.

Outside of the GTA, there were 134 new cases in Hamilton and 114 new cases in Windsor-Essex County.

Winsdor-Essex and York Region entered into lockdown on Monday.

 

COVID-19 in schools

The province reported 137 new COVID-19 cases in schools on Thursday.

Among the new cases in schools, 114 are related to students, while 23 are linked to staff.

Over 18 percent of schools in the province currently have a reported case of the virus. Eighteen schools outside of Windsor-Essex are currently closed as a result of COVID-19.

All schools in Windsor-Essex are currently closed for in-person learning.

The Toronto District School Board has announced that nine schools in the city will be closed until early January due to COVID-19 outbreaks

You can find which schools are reporting cases on the province’s website, when it is updated daily at 10:30 a.m.