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Ontario reports 1,273 COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths
Ontario reported 1,273 cases of COVID-19 and 14 deaths on Friday, as the province announced an update to its vaccination plan.
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The daily case count comes as the province completed 40,866 tests.
Ontario is reporting 1,273 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 40,900 tests completed. Locally, there are 269 new cases in Toronto, 268 in Peel, 101 in Ottawa, 78 in Hamilton and 72 in Durham.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 8,690,473 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 28, 2021
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 20,365 total cases — up 77 from Thursday
- 18,912 resolved cases
- 637 active cases
- 76 in hospital
- 383 deaths — up two from Thursday
Niagara
- 15,680 total cases — up 20 from Thursday
- 14,478 resolved cases
- 797 active cases
- 405 deaths
- 30 in hospital
Brant
- 3,221 total cases — up 15 from Thursday
- 3,111 resolved cases
- 90 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 7 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,635 total cases — up ten from Thursday
- 2,536 resolved cases
- 48 active cases
- 45 deaths
There were 159,775 vaccines administered on Thursday, for a total of nearly 8.7 million doses.
There are 1,023 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 across Ontario. There are 645 people in intensive care units with 458 of them on ventilators.
Another 2,362 cases have been marked as resolved.
