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Ontario reports 1,135 COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths

Ontario reported 1,135 cases of COVID-19 and 19 deaths on Thursday.
This is the seventh straight day the province’s daily case count has been under 2,000.
Meanwhile the reported positivity rate is the lowest we’ve seen this month, at 3.6 per cent. The province completed 37,705 tests.
Ontario is reporting 1,135 cases of #COVID19 and over 37,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 316 new cases in Toronto, 271 in Peel and 75 in York Region.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 27, 2021
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 20,288 total cases — up 64 from Wednesday
- 18,785 resolved cases
- 691 active cases
- 80 in hospital
- 381 deaths — up one from Wednesday
Niagara
- 15,660 total cases — up 57 from Wednesday
- 14,400 resolved cases
- 855 active cases
- 405 deaths
- 34 in hospital
Brant
- 3,206 total cases — up 15 from Wednesday
- 3,096 resolved cases
- 90 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 7 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,625 total cases — up five from Wednesday
- 2,523 resolved cases
- 51 active cases
- 45 deaths
Another 143,748 vaccine doses were administered. There are 594,854 people in the province who have received both required doses.
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario is 1,072.
There are 650 patients in intensive care units with 452 of them hooked up to ventilators. Both these numbers are down from what was reported on Wednesday.
There were another 2,302 cases marked as resolved.