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WATERLOO REGION — Public health officials in Waterloo Region reported 20 new COVID-19 cases in Sunday’s update, bringing the pandemic’s total to 2,174.
An outbreak at the Conestoga College Doon Campus Child Care Centre involving one case was also reported, bringing the total number of active outbreaks in the region to five. A single symptomatic case in staff or children at a licensed child care centre is considered an outbreak by public health.
The local death toll stands at 121, after the first death to be reported in more than two months was reported Saturday. The number of active cases rose to 116, and nine people are in hospital. A total of 1,937 cases are considered resolved.
Outbreaks involving a total of 10 cases remain active at a manufacturing/industrial workplace, an energy and utilities workplace, and two Catholic elementary schools — Holy Spirit in Cambridge and Our Lady of Grace in Kitchener.
