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Province Confirms 1,699 New Cases of COVID-19 This Morning

Monday, 22 March 2021 at 10:40

By ChrisM

Ontario is reporting 1,699 new cases of COVID-19 this morning and another 1,175 resolved cases after completing just over 31,000 tests on Sunday.

ONTARIO - The Province of Ontario has confirmed 1,699 new cases of COVID-19 this morning, bringing the total number of cases in the Province to 330,573

The Province confirmed another 32 COVID-19 related deaths over the weekend, bringing the total in Ontario to 7,244. Another 1,175 cases have been labelled resolved, bringing the total number of resolved cases to 304,789. The Province also confirmed 166 new variant cases over the weekend, this means we now have a total of 1,414 variants of concern confirmed in Ontario, most of them are the B.1.1.7 variant first discovered in the U.K.  

The province completed 31,089 tests yesterday. We currently have 813 COVID-19 patients in the hospital with 298 people in the ICU and 186 in the ICU on a ventilator. Over half of the new cases today are coming from hot spot regions with 500 new cases in Toronto, 318 in Peel 155 in York Region and 114 in Hamilton.

You can find a complete break down of the Provincial numbers online here. 

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