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Ontario reports 780 new coronavirus cases, 6 more deaths - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

Ontario reports 780 new coronavirus cases, 6 more deaths - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

Ontario reports 780 new coronavirus cases, 6 more deaths - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
Dec 01, 2021 1 min, 30 secs

Ontario reported nearly 800 new COVID-19 cases and six more virus-related deaths on Wednesday as the seven-day rolling average hit a high not seen since early June.

Provincial health officials logged 780 new infections today, up from 687 yesterday and from 591 a week ago.

Ontario reported 854 new cases on Saturday, 964 on Sunday and 788 on Monday.

As of Tuesday, over 89 per cent of people 12 years and older in Ontario have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 86 per cent have received two doses and are considered fully vaccinated.

On Tuesday, Ontario hit a grim milestone with a total of 10,000 deaths due to the virus since March 2020.

In the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto logged 96 new cases today, while 38 were reported in Peel Region, 37 in both York Region and Durham and 26 in Halton.

Elsewhere in Ontario, 88 new infections were logged in Windsor-Essex, 64 in Simcoe Muskoka and 56 in Sudbury and surrounding districts.

There are currently 296 people in Ontario hospitals with the virus and 155 in intensive care units, the ministry says

On Tuesday, the federal government added three more countries (Nigeria, Malawi, and Egypt) to its list of travel restrictions in response to the Omicron variant

Isaac Bogoch says the testing requirements will help slow down transmission of the variant but he said the expansion of travel restrictions likely won’t help

To date, there have been 619,270 lab-confirmed coronavirus infections and 602,515 recoveries in Ontario since Jan

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