Record high 232 new COVID-19 cases reported in Waterloo region Thursday
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There were 232 new COVID-19 cases reported in Waterloo region on Thursday.
That was the highest number of cases reported in a single day since the start of the pandemic, surpassing 203 reported on Jan. 10, 2021.
It also brought the total number of cases in December to 1,861. It made this month the fourth highest in relation to the number of monthly case totals. It's behind January 2021 with 3,356 cases, December 2020 with 2,313 cases and April 2021 with 2,251.
There were no new COVID-related deaths reported on Thursday.
The number of active cases hit 1,049. There were 19 people infectious with COVID-19 in the region's three hospitals and six people in intensive care. The region notes people in ICU may no longer be infectious with the virus, but require ongoing, specialized care.
There were 21 active outbreaks in the region. One was at Lanark Heights long-term care home in Kitchener where there were eight cases in staff members and eight "non-staff" cases. There was one death associated with this outbreak.
There were 16 outbreaks at schools, eight newly declared. The outbreaks were:
The other outbreaks were:
The region's vaccination dashboard showed 75.78 per cent of all residents had two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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