NRPH confirmed 17 new cases of COVID-19 in Niagara on Tuesday, bringing up the total of active cases to 140.
The increase is one of the highest daily numbers in over two months and comes after a weekend that, counting Monday, added 37 cases to the historic total of 1147 cases found in the region.
All Niagara municipalities except Niagara-on-the-Lake are reporting active cases.
Provincial update
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 548 new COVID-19 cases in the province today, and seven new COVID-related deaths.
The latest fatalities have included one person between 60 and 79 and six people over the age of 80. Two of the people who have died were residents at long-term care facilities.
Included in today's new cases are 14 long-term care residents and nine health care workers.
There are currently 50 long-term care homes in outbreak with 124 active cases in residents and 158 active cases in staff. There have been eight staff and 1,873 resident deaths attributed to the coronavirus reported since January.
Of the 548 cases reported today, 253 were individuals between 20 and 39 years old and another 139 were individuals aged 40 to 59 years old.
Based on a breakdown of the new cases today, 201 were reported by Toronto Public Health, 90 by Peel, and 62 by Ottawa. Five health units updated their records by removing one case, meaning there were 553 new cases today, but five previously-reported cases were removed.
The province has also confirmed 74 new school-related cases, including 41 students, 10 staff, and 23 others unidentified. There have been 470 school-related cases reported in the last two weeks and 611 total to-date spread across 347 schools. There are two schools closed.
Since January the province has confirmed 55,362 cases of COVID-19 through laboratory testing. Public Health Ontario has reported 46,906 of those cases have recovered, and 2,987 have ended in death.
There are now 5,469 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID in the province, including 192 people who have been hospitalized with the coronavirus. There are 41 COVID patients in intensive care units, and of those, 26 patients are on ventilators.
The province reported 42,031 tests have been processed in 24 hours, and there are another 55,483 tests awaiting results. The province has completed and processed more than 4.1 million COVID tests since January.
