Ontario is reporting 428 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, a two per cent increase in the total number of cases in the province.
This is a jump of 170 cases over yesterday’s reported 258 new cases. However, according to the province's health minister Christine Elliott, a glitch in uploading data meant yesterday's report missed 87 new cases, which were added to today's numbers.
A tweet by Elliott states the real day-over-day numbers are 345 new cases on May 14 and 341 today.
The province’s public health agency has also reported 27 deaths related to the coronavirus today, and 437 more cases have been reported recovered.
The latest deaths include one person between the ages of 20 and 39, two people between the ages of 40 and 59, eight people between the ages of 60 and 79, and 16 people over the age of 80.
There are now 986 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, and of those, 179 are in intensive care units and 135 are on ventilators.
There were 18,354 tests completed in a single day according to today’s report, compared to 16,204 tests reported yesterday. There are 14,373 tests awaiting results, and the province has now completed 510,841 COVID-19 tests since the beginning of the pandemic.
Public Health Ontario has recorded 21,922 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Jan. 15, and of those 16,641 people have recovered and 1,825 people have died.
The Ministry of Long-Term Care is reporting 186 outbreaks in long-term care homes, and 2,429 confirmed cases in residents of those homes and 1,647 confirmed cases in staff. The ministry has linked the deaths of 1,320 residents and five staff to the coronavirus. Of those, 823 resident deaths are included in Public Health Ontario’s report of the total number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) has confirmed 401 cases of COVID-19 in the Simcoe-Muskoka region, including 258 recoveries and 32 deaths. There are ten residents from the region hospitalized.
The breakdown of cases in each municipality, according to SMDHU, is as follows:
Barrie (136 cases, 77 recoveries, 10 deaths, 1 in hospital), Bradford West Gwillimbury (88 cases, 61 recoveries, 12 deaths, 2 in hospital), New Tecumseth (33 cases, 21 recoveries, 2 in hospital, one death), Orillia (16 cases, 12 recoveries, 2 deaths), Collingwood (12 cases*, 8 recoveries, 2 in hospital), Innisfil (29 cases, 19 recoveries), Springwater (8 cases, 5 recoveries, 1 death), Midland (6 cases, all recovered), Wasaga Beach (11 cases, 7 recoveries, 1 death), Oro-Medonte (5 cases, 2 recoveries, 2 deaths, 1 in hospital), Adjala-Tosorontio (7 cases, all recovered), Clearview (7 cases, 5 recoveries, one death), Essa (8 cases, 5 recoveries, 1 death), Ramara (5 cases, 2 recoveries), Tiny (4 cases, 2 recoveries), Tay (3 cases, 1 in hospital), Penetanguishene (2 cases, all recovered), and Severn (3 cases, 1 recovered) for a total of 382 cases in Simcoe County, including 242 recoveries and 9 hospitalizations.
There are also 19 confirmed positive cases in Muskoka, and 16 have recovered, one person from Muskoka Lakes has died.
The case rate (including lab-confirmed cases only) for Simcoe-Muskoka region is 66.4 cases per 100,000 population. The provincial average is 144.6 cases per 100,000 population.
*Collingwood Nursing Home also reported three cases confirmed in residents at the home, which have not yet been included in the health unit totals.
