COVID-19 cases on Friday, raising its total case count to 13,085.Among the new cases, 29 are variants of concern raising the total amount of variant cases in the area to 1,026.
Ontario says 6-week stay-at-home-order, 100K vaccine doses daily only way to flatten COVID-19 curve The region has reported its first cases of the B.1.351 variant that was first detected in South Africa and the P.1 variant first detected in Brazil.As of Friday, there are 605 active cases in Waterloo Region, which is down by 20 from the previous day.Among the active cases, 34 are being treated in a hospital, including 15 in intensive care.Another 98 people have been cleared of the virus, lifting the total number of resolved cases to 12,212, while the number of fatal.