86 residents in Niagara are dealing with active infections of COVID-19 after Public Health reported another 12 new cases on Monday.
Niagara is following the trend seen in the province, that reported over 700 cases on Monday in the upward trend that has health officials concerned.
All municipalities in the region except Niagara-on-the-Lake and Pelham are reporting active cases.
Niagara Falls and St Catharines have the highest concentration of active cases.
The 20-39 age group is the highest category in which new cases are being identified.
Provincial update
Ontario Public Health has confirmed 700 new COVID cases today, which is the highest number of cases reported in a single day in Ontario ever.
On April 24 the province reported 640 cases. Before today, that was the highest reported in a single day.
Of today's new cases, 344 were reported by Toronto Public Health, 104 were reported by Peel Public Health, and 89 were reported by Ottawa Public Health.
Ontario reports there are 418 individuals under 40 in today's list of new cases.
There is also one new death confirmed by the province – an individual between the ages of 60 and 79 years old.
Since last update, the province has reported there were 41,111 COVID tests processed and there are another 49,586 tests awaiting results. On April 24, the last highest daily case record, the province was reporting between 10,000 and 13,000 tests processed in a 24-hour period.
To-date, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 50,531 cases of COVID-19 and reported 2,840 deaths and 43,127 recoveries.
There are now 4,564 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, with at least 128 people hospitalized with COVID. There are 29 COVID patients in intensive care and 17 COVID patients on ventilators in the province.
According to provincial data posted today, there are 36 more school-related cases, including 27 student cases. There are now 272 school-related cases spread across 224 schools in the province.
