NRPH confirms four cases of COVID-19 in Niagara on Thursday.
Close contact with previously known cases and community transmission is listed as the prime way the virus is spreading in the region.
There are four active outbreaks in the region after Eastdale Secondary in Welland was added to the two health-care outbreaks and single community outbreak already listed.
DSBN confirmed another case of COVID-19 in one of its schools on Wednesday night, after Public Health advised that a person at William Hamilton Merritt in St Catharines had tested positive for the virus.
Provincial update:
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 409 new cases of COVID and one death today.
The province confirmed the death of one person between the ages of 60 and 79 years old, who had been confirmed positive for COVID.
Included among today's cases are 64 people aged 19 and under, 195 people aged 20 to 39 years old, 91 people between 40 and 59 years old, 41 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 18 people aged 80 and over.
According to a breakdown of cases by health unit, 313 of today's cases (77 per cent) were reported by four of Ontario's 34 health units. Toronto reported 151 new cases, York reported 34 new cases, Peel reported 46 new, cases and Ottawa reported 82 new cases.
Testing continues to climb with 30,634 tests reported processed, though an outage in the provincial reporting system yesterday means there were likely more tests processed. There are currently 53,840 tests awaiting processing. The province has now completed 3.68 million COVID tests since January.
To date, the province has confirmed 48,496 cases of COVID-19, and has reported 41,886 of those cases as recovered. Of the total lab-confirmed cases, 2,836 have ended in death.
There are 3,774 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of today's report.
