TORONTO —
Ontario is reporting a spike in new COVID-19 infections with more than 1,200 cases logged Friday.
The 1,250 new infections mark an increase over Thursday’s report when 994 cases were logged.
This is the first time in three consecutive days that the province has added more than 1,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus.
Since the pandemic began, Ontario has recorded 306,007 cases of COVID-19, including 288,583 recoveries and 7,046 deaths related to the disease.
Of those deaths, 22 occurred in the last 24-hour period, according to the province.
There are currently 1,0378 active cases of COVID-19 in Ontario.
Ontario labs completed 64,748 tests in the previous day, bringing the positivity rate to 2.3 per cent.
The seven-day average for number of infections reported is 1,062, down from 1,114 a week ago today.
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NOTE: The numbers used in this story are found in the Ontario Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from what is reported by the province, because local units report figures at different times.
