Province has now received 143,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, administered 72,631 doses by last night
Ontario reported a single-day record of 3,519 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as well as 89 more deaths of people with the illness — the deadliest day so far of the entire pandemic for the province.
"This has been a significant week for us," said Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams, noting today marked the highest number of cases the province has seen since the start of the pandemic, as well as deaths.
The hope is from here the numbers might start coming down, Williams said, although he expressed concerns that community transmission is at its worst point and that numbers could swell to 4,000 cases per day.
On top of that, Williams said hospitals are seeing record numbers of patients with ICU admissions "well over" what the province's modelling had projected.
In past months, Toronto, Peel and York regions made up around 70 per cent of the cases. On Thursday, they represented approximately 50 per cent, suggesting the number of cases outside the province's so-called hot zones are rising higher than they were previously.