Niagara's public health office reported over 1,400 active cases on Friday, with 154 new cases confirmed.
St Catharines has 354 known active cases, Welland 328 and Niagara Falls 213. Thorold has seen an increase this week, with 80 known active cases.
Four long-term care or retirement homes are still under outbreak, with Welland Hospital being the latest healthcare setting to report an outbreak.
Variant cases in Niagara have increased to 1,282., of which 18 have been sequenced and determined to be the U.K variant.
49 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll, after seeing some increases this week, is still at 379.
Provincially, Ontario logged more than 4,800 infections, breaking all previous records for a confirmed daily case count during the pandemic.
Over 24 percent of Niagara residents have now received at least the first dose of the vaccine, Public Health says. New dates were added to the regional vaccination clinics this week.
