Ontario reports 1,983 new COVID-19 cases, 35 deaths

Ontario is reporting 1,983 new cases of COVID-19 and 35 deaths.

That is a new record for daily cases, up from the record 1,925 cases set on Monday, and comes as the province completed 61,809 tests.

Another 1,804 cases of the virus have been marked as resolved.

Ontario is reporting 1,983 cases of #COVID19 and over 61,800 tests completed. Locally, there are 515 new cases in Peel, 496 in Toronto and 208 in York Region. There are 1,804 more resolved cases.

Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 10, 2020

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region

Haldimand-Norfolk

• 707 total cases, up 10 from Wednesday
• 628 resolved cases
• 42 active cases
• 32 deaths

Brant

• 587 total cases, up 16 from Wednesday
• 528 resolved cases
• 54 active cases
• 5 deaths
• 3 in hospital
• weekly rate of new cases per 100,000 — 39.49

Hamilton

• 3,905 total cases, up 81 from Wednesday
• 3,148 resolved cases
• 620 active cases
• 107 deaths (five new)
• 47 in hospital
• weekly rate of new cases per 100,000 — 87.3

Halton

• 4,328 total cases, up 75 from Wednesday
• 3,799 resolved cases
• 453 active cases
• 76 deaths (one new)
• 24 in hospital
• weekly rate of new cases per 100,000 — 70.9

Niagara

• 2405 total cases, up 35 from Wednesday
• 2,071 resolved cases
• 247 active cases
• 87 deaths
• 15 in hospital

The province says a total of 3,871 people have died.

There are 829 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in hospital. Intensive care units are treating 228 COVID-19 patients, with 132 of them on ventilators.

There were 139 cases reported in the province’s schools.