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Ontario reports 149 new COVID-19 cases today

Majority of new cases reported in Toronto, Peel, Ottawa
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Public Health Ontario has confirmed 149 new cases of COVID-19 today, down from 185 on Tuesday.

No new deaths were reported today. There have been 2,813 deaths in total.

Of the new cases, 50 were reported in Toronto, 42 in Peel and 37 in Ottawa.

To date, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 43,685 cases of COVID-19 and reported 39,332 recoveries.

There are now 1,540 active cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, including 55 patients hospitalized with the coronavirus. There are 15 COVID-19 patients in intensive care and eight are on ventilators.

The province has confirmed Ontario labs have processed another 17,605 COVID-19 tests, down from 20,929 on Tuesday. There have been 3,188,667 tests processed in total.

There are confirmed outbreaks at 18 long-term care homes in the province. There are 36 confirmed cases among residents and 39 among staff.

In Northern Ontario there is one known active case.

The breakdown for the health units is:

• Algoma Public Health - 29 cases, rate of 25.3 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases.

• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit - 35 cases, rate of 27 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 37 cases. There are no known active cases.

• Porcupine Health Unit - 74, rate of 88.7 per 100,000 population. There is one known active case.

• Public Health Sudbury and Districts - 94 cases, rate of 47.2 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases.

• Timiskaming Health Unit - 19 cases, rate of 58.1 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.

• Northwestern Health Unit - 46 cases, rate of 52.5 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.

• Thunder Bay District Health Unit - 103 cases, rate of 68.7 per 100,000.There are no known active cases.

The Ontario rate of infection per 100,000 population is 293.9.