Ontario reports 1,135 new COVID-19 cases and 19 more deaths; lowest positivity rate logged since March
Ontario reported more than 1,100 new COVID-19 cases and 19 additional deaths on Thursday, as the positivity rate marked a new low not seen since March.
Provincial health officials logged 1,135 new coronavirus cases, up from 1,095 on Wednesday but continuing a downward trend in new infections recorded in the past few weeks.
COVID: India’s ‘white fungus’ infections raise new health concerns
India’s Health Ministry is asking pharmaceutical companies to ramp up production and distribution of antifungal medications after a new type of fungal infection was found in recovering COVID-19 patients last week.
In Ghaziabad, a city in the northern Uttar Pradesh state, as many as seven recovering COVID-19 patients have been diagnosed with invasive aspergillosis, a severe form of white fungus infection.
Similar cases have been detected in cities in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Bihar.
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Cases of B.1.617 coronavirus variant in Ontario grew nearly six-fold last week: officials
Ontario’s count of known examples of the B.1.617 coronavirus variant grew nearly six times in the span of a week in May, and officials say they are still a “few weeks” away from being able to disclose new findings publicly in real time.
From May 12 to May 19, Public Health Ontario (PHO) said the number of known positive cases of the B.1.617 coronavirus variant grew from 45 to 260. It is almost certainly even higher today.
