COVID-19 Ontario: Province records fewer than 1,000 new infections
TORONTO --
Ontario is reporting a single-day drop in the number of new COVID-19 cases with less than 1,000 new infections logged.
Health officials recorded 990 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, which is a decline from the 1,250 cases reported on Friday.
Despite the dip in case numbers, the province's positivity rate remains at 2.3 per cent as fewer tests were completed in the previous 24-hour period then the day before.
The province is also reporting six additional COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities in the province to 7,052 since the start of the pandemic.
On Saturday, health officials deemed 1,152 more cases of the disease to be resolved, bringing Ontario's number of recovered patients up to 289735.
Saturday's case count brings the ...