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Ontario confirms 409 new COVID cases today

There are currently more than 50,000 tests awaiting results in the province
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Public Health Ontario has confirmed 409 new cases of COVID and one death today. 

The province confirmed the death of one person between the ages of 60 and 79 years old, who had been confirmed positive for COVID. 

Included among today's cases are 64 people aged 19 and under, 195 people aged 20 to 39 years old, 91 people between 40 and 59 years old, 41 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 18 people aged 80 and over. 

According to a breakdown of cases by health unit, 313 of today's cases (77 per cent) were reported by four of Ontario's 34 health units. Toronto reported 151 new cases, York reported 34 new cases, Peel reported 46 new, cases and Ottawa reported 82 new cases. 

Ontario has confirmed 31 new school-related cases, including 24 student cases and three staff cases. There have been 210 school-related cases across 178 schools in the province.

Testing continues to climb with 30,634 tests reported processed, though an outage in the provincial reporting system yesterday means there were likely more tests processed. There are currently 53,840 tests awaiting processing. The province has now completed 3.68 million COVID tests since January. 

To date, the province has confirmed 48,496 cases of COVID-19, and has reported 41,886 of those cases as recovered. Of the total lab-confirmed cases, 2,836 have ended in death. 

There are 3,774 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of today's report.

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported a total of 835 cases of COVID-19, with 778 of those in Simcoe County. There are now 709 cases listed as recovered. There is one person from Barrie hospitalized in Simcoe County with COVID-19. Thirty-eight people have died.

The health unit indicates there are 70 unrecovered cases in Simcoe County, and 85 active cases in the region. 

Case breakdown by municipality for Simcoe County as of Sept. 23

Municipality Total cases** Recoveries Deaths In Hospital Last case reported Incidence rate*
Barrie 288 228 14 1 Sept. 22 193.6
Bradford W-G 150 128 12   Sept. 22 349.1
New Tecumseth 95 88 2   Sept. 22 231.7
Innisfil 59 55     Sept. 23 139.9
Orillia 23 17 2   Sept. 21 68.7
Collingwood 17 17     Aug. 20 70.9
Wasaga Beach 23 18 1   Sept. 22 100
Clearview 9 8 1   July 27 60.9
Springwater 16 14 1   Sept. 9 76.2
Midland 12 12     July 24 66.9
Oro-Medonte 10 7 2   Sept. 17 38.6
Adjala-Tosorontio 9 9     June 16 77.2
Essa 20 19 1   Aug. 17 83.6
Ramara 13 13     Sept. 8 125.2
Tiny 7 7     Aug. 28 not released
Tay 9 9     July 23 81.3
Penetanguishene 9 8 1   Aug. 19 92.9
Severn 7 7     July 27 not released

*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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