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Ontario reports 1,855 new COVID-19 cases, 20 deaths

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Ontario is reporting 1,855 new cases of COVID-19 and 20 deaths.

It’s a new daily record for the province and comes as a record 58,037 tests were completed.

Local numbers will be added when public health units report their data. 

Here’s how the numbers break down in our region:

Haldimand-Norfolk: 6 new cases, 43 active cases

Brant: 9 new cases, 73 active cases, 5 in hospital

Niagara: 26 new cases,  216 active cases, 7 in hospital

Hamilton: 87 new cases, 419 active cases, 1 death, 24 in hospital

 

The death toll is now 3,595.

There are 541 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario. There are 151 people in ICU with 101 of them on ventilators.

Overall, 84.8 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Ontario have been marked as resolved, with another 1,451 cases added on Friday.

There were 122 cases reported in the province’s schools.