Ontario reports 135 new COVID-19 cases, one death

Ontario is reporting 135 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death.

Here is how the numbers break down in our region.

Brant County: 0 new cases

Hamilton: 1 new case

Haldimand-Norfolk: 0 new cases

Halton: 2 new cases

Niagara: 2 new cases

The majority of cases are being reported in Peel, Toronto and Windsor-Essex.

With 106 resolved cases reported Monday, there have now been multiple days in a row where new cases have outpaced newly resolved cases.

The number of people in hospital, in intensive care and on a ventilator all rose.

Monday’s numbers puts the total number of cases at 37,739.

About 89 per cent of those have been resolved.

Today, Ontario is reporting 135 cases of #COVID19, a 0.4% increase. Locally, 28 of Ontario’s 34 public health units are reporting five or fewer cases, with 18 of them reporting no new cases at all. Yesterday, the province processed nearly 21,000 tests.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) July 20, 2020

The Ministry of Health says it was able to complete more than 20,000 tests for COVID-19 in the previous day.