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Ontario reports 2,432 cases of COVID-19, 23 deaths

Ontario is reporting another 2,432 cases of COVID-19 and 23 deaths.
This is a single-day record and comes as the province completed 58,178 tests.
Ontario is reporting 2,432 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 58,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 737 new cases in Toronto, 434 in Peel, 209 in York Region, 190 in Windsor-Essex County and 142 in Hamilton. There are 2,009 more resolved cases.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 17, 2020
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 4,567 total cases, up 162 from Wednesday
- 3,543 resolved cases
- 853 active cases
- 127 deaths (four new)
- 53 in hospital
Niagara
- 2,767 total cases, up 44 from Wednesday
- 2,256 resolved cases
- 419 active cases
- 92 deaths
- 46 in hospital
Halton
- 4,779 total cases, up 76 from Wednesday
- 4,284 resolved cases
- 406 active cases
- 89 deaths (five new)
- 32 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 758 total cases, up 10 from Wednesday
- 661 resolved cases
- 59 active cases
- 33 deaths
Brant
- 700 total cases, up 19 from Wednesday
- 589 resolved cases
- 106 active cases
- 5 deaths
- 2 in hospital
The death toll now sits at 4,058 people, with more than 60 per cent of those deaths reported in residents of long-term care homes.
Another 2,009 cases have been marked as resolved. More than 85 per cent of Ontario’s known COVID-19 cases are resolved.
There are 919 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from the 932 reported on Wednesday. Of those, 263 are in intensive care with 172 of them on ventilators.