COVID-19 related deaths Tuesday as the number of fatalities in the province hit the grim milestone of 10,000 since the start of the pandemic.In a 20-month global pandemic that was formally declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020, the province recorded its first virus-related death on March 17, 2020 — a 77-year-old man from Barrie, Ont.Then, the first 1,000 deaths were recorded within the next six weeks by April 30, 2020.
Ontario reached 5,000 deaths amid the second wave on Jan. 11, as another thousand deaths were recorded just two and a half weeks later.
4 Omicron cases confirmed in Ottawa, others under investigation in Ontario Ontario hit just over 9,000 deaths on June 19 as it emerged from a devastating third wave while.