Niagara Public Health reports eight new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, but only an increase of three active cases.
One of the 60 cases that have not yet cleared up was found in a Thorold resident, regional statistics reveal.
In total, 30 Thorold residents have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic entered Niagara on March 13 with the region's first case.
Close contact with a previously known case remains the biggest category of transmission, followed by community transmission that accounts for close to one-third of new cases.
Niagara Health said yesterday that they have been experiencing a recent rush to their testing sites in St Catharines, Welland, and Niagara Falls which had spiked wait times.
On Friday Hotel-Dieu Shaver had been removed from the list of outbreaks in medical facilities, leaving only two active outbreaks in care homes, along with three smaller outbreaks across Niagara.
Public Health Ontario has reported 88 new cases of COVID-19 and zero deaths in today's update.
This is the fifth day in a row the province's public health agency has confirmed fewer than 100 new cases. Daily numbers have been on an overall decline since May, with the province reporting one of the lowest daily case counts so far on July 29.
Since Friday, July 31, the province has reported 688 new COVID cases. From July 24 to 31, Ontario reported 804 new cases. The highest case increase was the week of April 19-25 when there were 3,985 new cases reported in Ontario.
Thus far, Ontario Public Health has confirmed a total of 39,897 COVID-19 cases, and reported 36,024 of those as recovered with another 2,783 cases ending in death.
There are now 1,090 active, lab-confirmed cases in Ontario, including 66 people who are hospitalized. There are 28 COVID patients in intensive care units and 12 of them are on ventilators.
The province has completed 2,346,433 COVID tests, including 25,136 processed since the last provincial update.
Included in today's 88 new cases, there are 38 individuals between the ages of 20 and 39 years old, 24 individuals between 40 and 59 years old, 14 people under 19, and 12 people between the ages of 60 and 79. There is a single case in a person over the age of 80.
Eighteen of the 34 health units in Ontario reported zero new cases in today's provincial update, and another nine reported five or fewer cases.
