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  • By: Andrea Lawson
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Ontario reported 3,215 cases of COVID-19 and 17 deaths on Wednesday, as Premier Doug Ford prepares to announce new restrictions on the province.

The daily case count comes as the province completed 49,889 tests. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were done, is 6.7 per cent.

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region

Hamilton

  • 13,635 total cases — up 132 from Tuesday
  • 12,185 resolved cases
  • 904 active cases
  • 101 in hospital
  • 330 deaths — up seven from Tuesday

Halton

  • 11,658 total cases — up 135 from Tuesday
  • 10,816 resolved cases
  • 642 active cases
  • 53 in hospital
  • 200 deaths

Niagara

  • 10,382 total cases — up 133 from Tuesday
  • 9,189 resolved cases
  • 817 active cases
  • 16 in hospital
  • 376 deaths

Brant

  • 1,961 total cases — up 20 from Tuesday
  • 1,785 resolved cases
  • 162 active cases
  • 14 deaths
  • 5 in hospital

Haldimand-Norfolk

  • 1,724 total cases — up 22 from Tuesday
  • 1,562 resolved cases
  • 118 active cases
  • 39 deaths

Sources tell CHCH News the new stay-at-home order will last for four weeks and will restrict non-essential retail and increase vaccinations for essential industries.

READ MORE: Multiple sources say Ford government is considering a new stay-at-home order

There are 1,397 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 across Ontario. There are 504 people in intensive care units and 311 of them are on ventilators.

A total of 7,475 people have died.

Another 2,407 cases have been marked as resolved and the province administered another 104,382 vaccine doses since Tuesday’s report.

There are 324,783 people in Ontario who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

There are now 2,291 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 lineage of the virus, which was first reported in the U.K., up from 2,165 reported on Tuesday.

There are 71 confirmed cases of the B.1.351 strain, first reported in South Africa and 120 confirmed cases of the P.1 strain first reported in Brazil.

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