COVID-19: 121 new cases, 1 new death reported in Waterloo Region on Thursday
Waterloo Public Health reported 121 new positive tests for the coronavirus on Thursday, the highest single-day total number of newThis brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the area to 21,755 while pushing the rolling seven-day average number of new daily cases up to 69.1, up from 39.6 a week earlier.
There are now 21 active outbreaks in the area after new ones were declared at Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School in Cambridge, St. Paul Catholic Elementary School in Kitchener, an unnamed manufacturing plant and another connected to hockey. Another 21 people were also cleared of the virus, moving the number of resolved cases in the region up to 20,856.
A large portion of these appear to be people getting a third dose as the total number of residents who have had three jabs rose by 4,872 to 48,889.Elsewhere, Ontario reported 2,421 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, as positive infections continue to surge daily amid the highly contagious Omicron variant. The provincial case total now stands at 639,341.
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