Ontario reports record-high 9,571 COVID-19 cases
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Ontario reported a whopping 9,571 cases of COVID-19 on Friday.
That's 3,781 cases higher than Thursday's case count, which—at 5,790—was already the most cases ever logged on a single day in the province by a considerable margin.
Still, another record-setting day should come as no surprise. As Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's chief medical officer health, said earlier in the week, record-high daily case counts will likely be the norm for weeks to come.
"Due to the highly-transmissible nature of the Omicron variant, it was expected that numbers would increase in the winter months," said Alexandra Hilkene, spokesperson for health minister Christine Elliott in a statement Friday morning.
Hilkene repeated Moore's warning about record case counts still to come.
"While the province's ICUs continue to remain stable, we expect the number of admissions to rise in the coming weeks," she said, "particularly among the unvaccinated."
Here are some other key pandemic indicators and figures from the Ministry of Health's daily provincial update:
Tests completed: 72,639.
Provincewide test positivity rate: 18.7 per cent, up from 16 per cent on Thursday and 10.7 per cent on Wednesday.
Active cases: 40,555.
Patients in ICU with COVID-related illnesses: 164; 102 needed a ventilator to breathe.
Deaths: six, pushing the death toll to 10,146.
Vaccinations: over 229,000 bringing the total to date to 26,343,050 doses. Currently, 90.6 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 or older have one dose while 88 per cent have two.
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