Ontario reports record number of new COVID cases with more than 16,700 infections
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There are 205 people in intensive care due to COVID-19, which is an increase of five compared to Thursday.
Ontario is reporting more than 16,700 new COVID-19 cases Friday.
There were 16,713 new infections reported, setting a single-day record for COVID cases in Ontario since the pandemic began. There have now been 756,361 confirmed cases in Ontario.
Friday’s report broke a previous record set Thursday of 13,807 cases.
Fifteen additional virus-related deaths were also announced on Dec. 31, bringing the provincial death toll to 10,194.
There are 205 people in intensive care due to COVID-19, which is an increase of five compared to Thursday. Of those, 104 are on a ventilator, which is unchanged.
There are 1,144 people in hospital with COVID-19, which is up by 179.
The total number of resolved COVID cases in Ontario stands at 647,345, marking an increase of 4,630.
Ontario completed 75,093 additional tests. The positivity rate stands at 29.8 per cent. There are 106,173 tests still being processed.
