Ontario reported 2,336 additional cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday along with 14 more deaths, as hospitalizations climbed to their highest point in nearly two months.
There were almost 1,100 people in hospital on Monday night due to coronavirus infection, the highest count since Feb. 4.
Ontario reported nearly 7,500 cases of COVID-19 over the past three days, including 2,094 on Monday.
New data shows COVID-19 pandemic now ‘completely out of control’ in Ontario, key scientific adviser says
A new briefing note from a panel of science experts advising the Ontario government on COVID-19 shows a province at a tipping point.
Variants that are more deadly are circulating widely, new daily infections have reached the same number at the height of the second wave, and the number of people hospitalized is now more than 20 per cent higher than at the start of the last province-wide lockdown, states an analysis from Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table published on Monday night.
“Right now in Ontario, the pandemic is completely out of control,” Dr. Peter Juni, the table’s scientific director and a professor of medicine and epidemiology with the University of Toronto, said in an interview prior to the briefing note’s publication.
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