Global News published this video item, entitled “Coronavirus: Modelling suggests Ontario could see 1,000 COVID-19 cases a day in October | FULL” – below is their description.
Ontario health officials said during an update on the province’s latest COVID-19 modelling on Wednesday that the province could see upwards of 1,000 cases a day in October, as the second wave is in full swing. Cases in the province are now doubling almost every 10 to 12 days, according to documents released, and Adalsteinn Brown, Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto said that while the age group with the highest number of virus cases is younger people, the province is seeing a rise in cases “in all age groups.” The modelling released on Wednesday does not take into account, however, the additional public measures introduced by the Ford government already. Additional public health measures were invoked in mid-September due to the upward trend in case numbers across the province, but most specifically in Toronto, Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Area. Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said that Ontarians need to “pull up our socks” and continue adhering to public health recommendations to slow the spread of COVID-19, stating that “we saw in the first wave it did work.” The Public Health Agency of Canada released its own latest modelling last week, predicting up to 9,300 deaths across the country by early October if the current trajectory of the epidemic continues. Ontario reported 625 new cases of the virus on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 51,710. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7368240/ontario-coronavirus-modelling-covid19-september/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #Ontario #coronavirus #COVID19
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