Ontario logs 748 new COVID-19 cases and 5 more deaths
CTV
Ontario is reporting 748 new cases of COVID-19 as well as five more deaths related to the disease.
The new infections logged Thursday represent a significant increase from the 591 cases reported on Wednesday and the 613 cases reported Tuesday.
The seven-day rolling average of daily infections now stands at about 692. A week ago that number was 625.
With just over 33,900 tests processed in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says the province's positivity rate is about 2.6 per cent.
The total number of lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ontario now stands at 614,270, including 9,985 deaths. The province said that five deaths were confirmed in the last 24 hours; however one death that occured more than a month ago was removed from the cumulative count due to data cleaning.
