COVID-19: Ontario reports 2,199 new cases and 30 deaths
COVID-19: Ontario reports 2,199 new cases and 30 deaths
Confirmed active cases continue to decline as the province surpasses seven million vaccine doses administered By NOW Staff
Ontario is reporting 2,199 new cases of COVID-19 and 30 deaths on May 16.
The province detected 2,584 new cases on Saturday, 2,362 on Friday and 2,759 on Thursday. Ontario has a seven-day rolling average of 2,430, down from 3,120 last Sunday.
“Locally, there are 633 new cases in Toronto, 547 in Peel, 172 in York Region, 143 in Durham and 129 in Hamilton,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.
However, the province only completed 33,142 tests in the past 24 hours, marking a 6.8 per cent positivity rate according to Public Health Ontario. The positivity rate last Sunday was 7.1 per cent.
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