ontario Ontario reports 807 new coronavirus cases Thanksgiving Monday, 746 Tuesday Ontario is reporting 807 new cases of coronavirus for Thanksgiving Monday and 746 cases on Tuesday — totaling 1,553 cases in 48 hours. The provincial government did not release numbers on Monday due to the holiday and instead released two sets of data on Tuesday. The total cumulative number of cases now stands at 60,692. bc B.C. records 549 new cases of COVID-19 and 5 more deaths over the long weekend Another 549 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in B.C. over the last four days, but Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the high case numbers are partly the result of a testing backlog. Tuesday's update also included five more deaths from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of people who have died so far to 250. "The numbers are higher than what we would like to see," Henry acknowledged, but she said a backlog added approximately "an extra day's worth of tests," mainly from the Fraser Health region, to the totals of the last four days.

ottawa Code red: Ottawa reaches highest level on pandemic scale Hospitals reaching capacity with 48 patients, 10 in ICU Ottawa has been moved into the red, the most severe classification on a four-colour scale used by public health officials to determine the severity of COVID-19 in the community, including the risk of overburdening the local health-care system. The city was officially declared a red zone Friday, following Ontario's announcement that Ottawa was being rolled back into a modified Stage 2, closing dine-in bars and restaurants, movie theatres, performing arts venues, gyms and casinos for at least the next four weeks. Ontario tightens restrictions in 3 major areas amid 939 new cases of COVID-19 The decision to reclassify the city from orange to red was based on a rapid increase in new cases, hospitalizations and outbreaks, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) wrote in a statement.