Chris Fox, CP24.com
Published Monday, September 28, 2020 10:30AM EDT
Last Updated Monday, September 28, 2020 10:48AM EDT
Ontario is reporting a record 700 new cases of COVID-19 with nearly half of them in Toronto.
It’s the highest daily count ever recorded in Ontario, surpassing the 640 cases confirmed on April 24.
It should, however, be noted that the province was testing far fewer people this spring and those numbers might not have fully captured the degree to which the virus was present at the time.
For example, the previous high of 640 cases was based on the completion of more than 12,000 individual tests, translating into a positive percentage of five per cent. Meanwhile, the 700 cases confirmed on Monday came on more than 41,000 tests. That translates into a positive percentage of about 1.7 per cent.
Of the new cases confirmed on Monday, roughly three-quarters of them were in the Greater Toronto Area (526 cases), continuing a recent trend.
Toronto alone had 344 cases while Peel Region had 104 cases, York Region had 56 cases, Durham Region had seven cases and Halton Region had 15 cases.
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