COVID-19 cases per day by the end of April.Medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa says the surging rates are being driven by more transmissible variants of concern in the community.De Villa says the current record for daily cases in Toronto is 1,642 and was set during the second wave of the pandemic.She says the city is vaccinating more people against the virus but that still won’t be enough to offset the impact of the variants.