Ontario reports 2,139 new COVID-19 cases, 43 deaths

Ontario is reporting 2,139 new cases of COVID-19 and 43 deaths.

The additional deaths reported on Wednesday pushed the province’s COVID-19 death toll to 4,035. Of those deaths, about 62 per cent are in residents of long-term care.

Ontario is reporting 2,139 cases of #COVID19. Locally, there are 780 new cases in Toronto, 528 in Peel, 148 in York Region, 143 in Durham and 111 in Windsor-Essex County. There are 2,043 more resolved cases and nearly 49,200 tests completed.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 16, 2020

An additional 2,043 cases of COVID-19 have been marked as resolved. Overall, 85.6 per cent of the province’s 146,535 known cases of the virus are resolved.

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region:

Haldimand-Norfolk

• 748 total cases, up 11 from Tuesday
• 652 resolved cases
• 58 active cases
• 33 deaths

Brant

• 681 total cases, up 7 from Tuesday
• 581 resolved cases
• 95 active cases
• 5 deaths
• 1 in hospital

Hamilton

• 4,405 total cases, up 37 from Tuesday
• 3,487 resolved cases
• 752 active cases
• 123 deaths (two new)
• 51 in hospital

Niagara

• 2,723 total cases, up 51 from Tuesday
• 2,215 resolved cases
• 416 active cases
• 92 deaths (three new)
• 42 in hospital

Halton

• 4,703 total cases, up 91 from Tuesday
• 4,219 resolved cases
• 400 active cases
• 84 deaths
• 29 in hospital

There are 932 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, including 256 in the ICU. Of those in the ICU, 157 are on ventilators.