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Fifth straight day Ontario reports over 2,000 new cases of COVID-19

Ontario is reporting nearly 2,100 new COVID-19 cases.

The province added 2,094 cases on Monday with seventy-one per cent in the hot spots around the GTHA and Ottawa.

The death toll has now reached 7,337 after another ten people died.

The recovery rate is at 93 per cent while test positivity, the percentage of tests coming back positive, is at its highest number since mid-January at 6.1 per cent.

Over 39,000 tests were processed over the last 24 hours and over 50,000 vaccines were given.

After the weekend, there are now 1,749  B.1.17 variant cases, sixty B.1.351 variant cases and 82 P.1 variant cases.

 

 

Casey Kenny
Casey Kenny
A graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Program at Loyalist College, Casey has worked in newsrooms across the country for 20 years. Stops along his radio adventure include Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, North Bay, Stratford and now Kemptville. Casey is also a veteran play-by-play announcer and is the Voice of the Kemptville 73's Hockey Team. A proud uncle of eight nieces and nephews, Casey is happy to call Kemptville home now.

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