Ontario reports 2,417 new cases of COVID-19 and 102 more deaths related to the virus

Published January 24, 2021 at 5:28 pm

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Ontario is reporting 2,417 new cases of COVID-19 today and 102 more deaths related to the virus.

Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 785 new cases in Toronto, 404 in Peel Region, 215 in York Region, 121 in Niagara, 98 in Hamilton, and 78 in Halton.

Over 48,900 tests have been completed in Ontario over the past 24 hours.

The province is reporting that 4,427 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered since the province’s last report, and 1,436 are hospitalized with the virus.

A total of 280,573 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ontario so far.

Since the pandemic began, there have been 255,002 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. Of those, 225,046 have recovered and 5,803 people have died.

The numbers are slightly up from yesterday’s 2,359 cases and 52 deaths.

Officials say a male teen who worked in a long-term care home is among the three deaths reported on the Middlesex-London region’s COVID-19 case site in southwestern Ontario on Saturday. 

A spokesman for the Middlesex-London Health Unit says they can’t provide the exact age or any other details about him, but added he is the youngest person with COVID-19 in the county to have died from the virus.

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