Ontario is reporting 428 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, a two per cent increase in the total number of cases in the province.
This is a jump of 170 cases over yesterday’s reported 258 new cases.
However, according to the province's health minister Christine Elliott, a glitch in uploading data meant yesterday's report missed 87 new cases, which were added to today's numbers. A tweet by Elliott states the real day-over-day numbers are 345 new cases on May 14 and 341 today.
The province’s public health agency has also reported 27 deaths related to the coronavirus today, and 437 more cases have been reported recovered.
The latest deaths include one person between the ages of 20 and 39, two people between the ages of 40 and 59, eight people between the ages of 60 and 79, and 16 people over the age of 80.
There are now 986 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, and of those, 179 are in intensive care units and 135 are on ventilators.
There were 18,354 tests completed in a single day according to today’s report, compared to 16,204 tests reported yesterday. There are 14,373 tests awaiting results, and the province has now completed 510,841 COVID-19 tests since the beginning of the pandemic.
Public Health Ontario has recorded 21,922 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Jan. 15, and of those 16,641 people have recovered and 1,825 people have died.
The Ministry of Long-Term Care is reporting 186 outbreaks in long-term care homes, and 2,429 confirmed cases in residents of those homes and 1,647 confirmed cases in staff. The ministry has linked the deaths of 1,320 residents and five staff to the coronavirus. Of those, 823 resident deaths are included in Public Health Ontario’s report of the total number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus.
In Northern Ontario, the Thunder Bay District Health Unit has the highest number of confirmed cases, with 79. The Porcupine Health Unit, which covers Timmins and the surrounding area, still has the highest rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population among other health units in Northern Ontario. The rate there is 77.9 per 100,000 people.
According to today's report, which includes data from Jan. 15 to May 14, the number of cases at other Northern Ontario health units, as well as the rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population are:
• Algoma Public Health - 17 cases, rate of 14.9 per 100,000 population
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit - 20 cases, rate of 15.4 per 100,000 population
• Porcupine Health Unit - 65, rate of 77.9 per 100,000 population
• Public Health Sudbury and Districts - 59 cases, rate of 29.6 per 100,000 population
• Timiskaming Health Unit - 18 cases, rate of 55.1 per 100,000
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit - 79 cases, rate of 52.7 per 100,000 population
• Northwestern Health Unit - 18 cases, rate of 20.5 per 100,000 population
According to the report, in Northeastern Ontario, there have been 179 confirmed cases, and the rate is 32 per 100,000 population. In Northwestern Ontario, there have been 97 cases and a rate of 40.8. The provincial rate per 100,000 population is 147.5
