Ontario reported another 151 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases this afternoon.
Information for all the new cases reported today is listed simply as pending.
The total for the province has now tipped over 1,000 with 1,144 confirmed cases of the virus.
As of Friday, there were at least 35 lab-confirmed cases in Simcoe Muskoka region, but the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has said it will not be updating the numbers over the weekend.
The province has reported there are 18 deaths, but two have not been lab confirmed.
Reports from various health units suggest the provincial death toll is 19.
There have been three deaths in Simcoe-Muskoka, two in York, four in Toronto, one in Halton region, one in Niagara region, three in Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge, one in Ottawa, one in Hamilton, and three in Durham region.
In a press conference Friday afternoon, Dr. Barbara Yaffe, the province’s associate chief medical officer of health, said 60 people with COVID-19 are currently hospitalized, while 43 of them are in intensive care and 32 are using ventilators.
This week marked the first time Ontario reported triple digit increases in COVID-19 confirmed cases with 100 on Wednesday, 170 on Thursday, and 135 yesterday.
On Friday, the province didn’t post a list of information for the new cases, and instead stated all information on the new cases was “pending.” Previously, the Ontario website reported information such as age, gender, travel or community transmission, health unit where the case was confirmed, and status of the patient.
This week, Canada surpassed 4,500 confirmed cases of the virus and there have been at least 53 people who have died in Canada after testing positive for COVID-19.
The death toll for COVID-19 has now passed that of SARS. In 2003, Canada reported 438 probable and suspect SARS cases and 44 deaths related to the virus. Those deaths occurred over six months.
The first death attributed to COVID-19 in Canada was reported on March 8, 2020.
