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Ontario reports 484 COVID-19 cases, 28 deaths over two days

Ontario reported 484 cases of COVID-19 and 28 deaths over two days.
Thursday’s daily case count, which was released on Friday because of Canada Day, was 284 cases and 19 deaths were reported.
The province reported 200 cases on Friday with 25,161 tests in the last day. Nine more people died.
Ontario is reporting 200 cases of #COVID19 today and 284 cases reported yesterday. Today, there are 41 new cases in the Region of Waterloo, 23 in Toronto, 21 in Peel Region and 18 in Grey Bruce.
Nearly 25,200 tests were completed on July 1st and over 26,900 tests on June 30th.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) July 2, 2021
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 21,292 total cases — up eight from Thursday
- 20,309 resolved cases
- 109 active cases
- 28 in hospital
- 400 deaths
Niagara
- 16,231 total cases — up 14 from Thursday
- 15,685 resolved cases
- 131 active cases
- 415 deaths
- 5 in hospital
Brant
- 3,402 total cases — up one
- 3,373 resolved cases
- 9 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 1 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,708 total cases — no new cases
- 2,642 resolved cases
- 13 active cases
- 47 deaths
On Friday, 179 patients were reported in hospital with COVID-19 in Ontario. There are 252 people in intensive care units being treated for COVID-related illnesses with 160 of them on ventilators.
The province administered 267,687 vaccine doses on Wednesday and 145,674 on Thursday.
More than 5.1 million people in the province have received both required vaccine doses.