coronavirus on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 231,308.Friday’s case count is lower than Thursday’s, which saw 3,326 new infections.
On Wednesday, 2,961 new cases were recorded and 2,903 on Tuesday.“Locally, there are 800 new cases in Toronto, 618 in Peel, 250 in York Region, 161 in Waterloo and 153 in Niagara,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said.The death toll in the province has risen to 5,289, after 100 more deaths were reported — marking the highest number of daily deaths reported.However, the Ontario government noted some of the deaths from one public health unit are from earlier in the pandemic.“Due to a data cleaning initiative, 46 deaths reported by Middlesex-London Health Unit that occurred earlier in the pandemic are.