Ontario records 3rd day of less than 300 new cases

Ontario is reporting 251 new cases of COVID-19, an increase of 0.7 percent, bringing the total number of cases to 31,341, with 81 percent of those resolved.

This is the third day in a row the number of new cases falls below 300.

Currently there are 580 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, 118 of those are in ICU and 86 are on ventilators.

The province completed 19,941 tests with 13,897 currently under investigation.

The death toll in the province is up by 11, pushing the total to 2,475 – more than 64 per cent of which comes from residents in long-term care homes.

Leaders of Ontario’s opposition are calling on Premier Doug Ford to release a list of his pandemic medical advisers.

The N-D-P, Liberals and Greens have all asked Ford to disclose the medical and scientific professionals the province has turned to for guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ford defended his advisers yesterday during his COVID-19 media briefing, refusing to release their names because of privacy concerns