38 deaths, 514 new cases reported as Ontario's coronavirus totals near 9,000
Ontario’s government confirms there have been 38 more COVID-19 related deaths, with 514 new known cases, reaching a total of 8,961 as of Thursday morning.
But almost half have been resolved at 4,194 cases.
Compared to Wednesday’s 494 confirmed new cases, there is a slight increase in the newly confirmed coronavirus patients.
So far, a total of 323 people have died from coronavirus with 4,323 cases currently under investigation.
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There have been 104 outbreaks reported in long-term care homes, an increase of six from Wednesday’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 54.8%.
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Of the total cases, 43% are male and 56.3% are female, with 41.7% of cases aged 60 years and older.
To date, there are 807 hospitalized, with 248 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.
While the province has almost 8,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the number of new cases is declining “slowly.”
And 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.
“That’s assuming all the measures in place continue, all the public health measures continue. If they are in fact correct, and things continue, after a peak, usually things go down,” she said.
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.
Ontario is bringing up testing capacity to 8,000 a day, with Ford vowing to have the province test up to 13,000 daily, compared to the 2,000 to 3,000 tests being done until now.
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