BREAKING: Ontario reports highest daily COVID-19 case count since pandemic began with more than 5,700 new infections
Health officials reported 5,790 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday. The highest daily number of infections previously reported was 4,812 cases on April 16.
Health experts have said that the number of infections in fully vaccinated individuals will rise as more people get the vaccine. Elliott confirmed that 169 of those patients are in intensive care, including 137 people who are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status and 32 people who are fully vaccinated.
Officials reported 486 new cases in Ottawa, 277 new cases in Hamilton, 253 new cases in Middlesex-London, 213 new cases in Simcoe-Muskoka, 125 new cases in Waterloo region, 115 new cases in Niagara Region, 122 new cases in the Wellington-Dufferin Guelph area and 103 new cases in Windsor-Essex.According to the province’s epidemiology report, of the 4,383 new infections reported on Thursday, 637 cases were identified in children under the age of 12.
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