Premier Doug Ford is scheduled to hold a news conference alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Oakville. The pair are set to reveal details of a $500-million investment to help automaker Ford make electric cars at its plant there. A question and answer period will follow the announcement.
You can watch it live in this story.
Ontario reported 797 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the most on any single day since the outbreak began, while the province's labs processed 48,488 tests — also a single-day record.
As has been the case in recent months, most of the new cases are concentrated in four public health units:
- Toronto: 265
- Ottawa: 182
- Peel Region: 134
- York Region: 78
Other areas that saw double-digit increases include:
- Halton Region: 33
- Simcoe-Muskoka: 24
- Durham Region: 22
- Hamilton: 11
- Middlesex-London: 11
- Waterloo Region: 10
About 57 per cent of the newly confirmed infections are in people under 40 years old, Health Minister Christine Elliott said in a tweet.
The testing record comes as the province pushes toward its goal of processing 50,000 tests daily by the middle of October, and more than 75,000 per day by mid-November. The backlog of tests waiting to be completed currently sits at 58,118.
Ontario recently announced it would end testing for asymptomatic people at its 153 COVID-19 assessment centres, instead moving to an appointment-only model for those with symptoms of the disease. The decision was made, in part, to help labs clear the backlog of test samples, which at its highest grew to more than 92,000.
Health experts have cautioned the change could result in artificially deflated new daily case numbers this week.
The number of people in Ontario hospitals with confirmed cases of COVID-19 continued its steady climb upward, up to 206 from 195. Of those, 47 are being treated in intensive care units, while 29 on on ventilators.
Meanwhile, outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in long-term care facilities continue, with 57 currently being tracked by public health officials, four more than just yesterday.
Ontario's official COVID-19 death also increased yesterday, up four to 2,992.
The province has now seen a total of 56,742 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since late January. About 85.1 per cent are considered resolved. Another 695 cases were marked resolved in today's provincial report.
There are currently some 5,442 confirmed, actives cases of the illness provincewide, an increase of 98 over yesterday. About 74 per cent of those are in the Greater Toronto Area.
The developments come as provincial officials ask Ontarians to spend the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with only people in their own household.
"I know it's tough on everyone," Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday. "We're all going to make sacrifices to stop the spread of COVID-19."
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2020-10-08 15:29:00Z
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