Public Health Ontario says the province has exceeded its daily testing target twice in a row. Over 18,500 tests were run to get yesterday’s batch of results. Yesterday, over 17,500 tests were detailed. The province is shooting for 16,000 daily and hopes to reach 25,000 in time.
There were 13,351 tests waiting to be run, in an apparent continued surge in people seeking out testing.
Friday’s update revealed another 344 cases of COVID-19 were added to the provincial caseload that now exceeds 27,000. Of those, over 77 percent are recoveries, at 20,983 people. That’s an increase of 310 recoveries since yesterday’s update.
Another 41 lives lost, 2,230 to date.
