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Ontario postpones Spring Break to April 12
Ontario is reporting 945 new confirmed cases Thursday, although Health Minister Christine Elliott said it was an “underestimate,” due to continued data migration issues
Toronto Public Health, a provincial hotspot, reported just 112 new cases Thursday, which Elliott said was “under-reported”
Other GTA hotspots confirmed 258 new cases in Peel region and 116 in York region.
There were 63 new cases reported in Ottawa, according to provincial data.
Ontario confirmed eight new cases of the B.117 (U.K.) strain Thursday, for a total of 236 confirmed cases, six of them in Ottawa
There are three known cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) strain, including one in Ottawa.
On Tuesday, Dr. Steini Brown unveiled the new models that informed the Ontario government’s push for new restrictions to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
More long-term care home deaths are among the sobering latest COVID-19 predictions from the province. Co-Chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisor.
Ontario declared an emergency on Tuesday after latest modelling put Canada's most populous province on track to have more than 20,000 new COVID-19 cases per day by the middle of February, a nearly ten-fold increase from the current count.