55 more coronavirus deaths in Ontario mark largest single-day jump so far
Ontario’s government confirms there have been 55 more COVID-19 related deaths, the largest single-day jump so far, with 564 new cases, as of Friday morning.
Compared to Thursday’s 514 confirmed new cases, there is an increase of 6.3% in confirmed coronavirus patients.
So far, a total of 478 people have died from coronavirus in Ontario with 5,993 cases currently under investigation.
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There have also been 106 outbreaks reported in long-term care homes, an increase of two from Thursday’s report. This follows an emergency order on April 14 by Premier Doug Ford, allowing essential workers at long-term care homes to only work at one facility to reduce the spread of the virus.
The province also announced additional resources for testing, surveillance, and prevention will be provided to aid the vulnerable community.
The Greater Toronto Area public health units account for more than half of the cases at 55.6%.
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Of the total cases, 42.8% are male and 56.5% are female, with 42.8% of cases aged 60 years and older.
To date, there are 829 hospitalized, with 245 in ICU, and 200 patients are on ventilators.
On Monday, health officials said that there is a chance Ontario’s coronavirus peak will happen this week.
According to Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s associate chief medical officer of health, assuming all public health measures continue, the peak is likely to happen soon.
“Our numbers, generally speaking, the number of new cases each day has been going down slightly. Not exactly but the general trend,” said Yaffe on Monday. “The modellers have told us that the peak is likely going to happen this week.”
Dr. Yaffe said that after a peak, there will still be cases, but they will go down.
According to the province, the daily summary is based on data reported by the 34 public health units across Ontario and recorded in the province’s integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS).
iPHIS is the Ministry of Health’s disease reporting system where data is regularly updated, and where each daily summary is pulled at 4 pm the previous day.
Ford announced on Thursday that the promise made the previous week to have 8,000 tests done a day by April 16 was being exceeded with 9,000 a day.
“We hit our first target and we will have 14,000 tests a day done by the end of this month,” Ford said.
As of April 16, there are 30,092 total cases in Canada and 1,193 reported deaths.
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