The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Niagara increased by 57 over the weekend, counting Monday's numbers, but without making a significant impact on the number of active cases across the region, which right now sits at 204.
The daily breakdown:
Saturday: 18
Sunday: 25
Monday: 14
The region said Monday's number is not complete, as the reporting had left some cases out, and cautions that Tuesday's numbers therefore might look higher.
NRPH also reports one new COVID-19-related death on Monday, bringing the region'ss death toll to 84.
One outbreak in a health-care facility was also declared over.
There are 7 active outbreaks in long-term care facilities and 11 other outbreaks.
Ontario update:
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,746 new cases of COVID-19 today, which is 38 fewer than yesterday. There were more than 1,700 cases reported on both Saturday and Sunday.
Of today's new cases, most are confined to the Greater Toronto Area. There are 390 new cases confirmed in Peel Region, 622 cases in Toronto and 217 in York Region; that represents 1,229 — or 70 per cent — of the new lab-confirmed cases reported over the past 24 hours.
The agency also reported eight more deaths related to the coronavirus over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, 24 deaths were reported.
More than 1,320 cases have been resolved since yesterday.
Over the past 24 hours, 39,406 tests were completed, which is about 14,600 fewer than the record number of tests processed Friday.
According to today's data, the positivity rate is 4.4 per cent; that means 4.4 people out of every 100 people tested have the coronavirus.
Since the start of the pandemic, public health labs in Ontario have processed more than 6.2 million COVID-19 tests.
Throughout Ontario, there are 618 people currently hospitalized with the coronavirus, but the agency notes that a number of hospitals (approximately 40) did not submit data for Nov. 28.
