Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams and associate chief medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe provided an update Wednesday on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and discussed the public health agency's ongoing response to the pandemic.
Yaffe reported 412 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the provincial total to 18,722 cases.
The death toll has risen to 1,429 as 68 more deaths were reported. Meanwhile, 13,222 people have recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which is 70.6 per cent of cases.
Wednesday’s report marks an increase of 2.3 per cent in total cumulative cases, which is a low growth rate as part of the downward trend the province is now seeing.
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