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Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott attends the Ontario-Quebec Summit, in Toronto, on Wednesday, September 9, 2020. Photo by Chris Young /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Ontario recorded its highest single day count of COVID-19 cases Friday — 732.
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Although it appears to be a record number for a single day — the previous record of 700 was set Monday — the tally actually includes 73 summer and spring cases from Toronto.
Toronto Public Health officials explained the additional cases resulted from a “data cleaning initiative” and that even those numbers were still preliminary.
A similar backlog led to a large jump in the number of deaths by 76 to 2,927, with all but two having occurred in the spring or summer, public health data shows.
The rising numbers sparked an unusual series of tweets from Ottawa Public Health, advising the public that the health system is in crisis.
“Labs are working beyond capacity causing dangerous backlogs, which affects our contact tracing & case management. Hospitals are nearing capacity, and we’re seeing more outbreaks in LTC homes. Our system can’t handle much more of this,” the tweet says.
Premier Doug Ford said his government has a plan in place for the fall months, including an expanded flu shot program and $1 billion in testing and contact tracing.
The daily COVID-19s, and the modelling forecast showing Ontario could be at 1,000 new cases a day by mid-October, are a “wake up call” for Ontarians that they need to follow public health measures, he said.
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