Global News published this video item, entitled “Coronavirus: Ontario health officials provide update on province’s COVID-19 response | LIVE” – below is their description.
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams and associate chief medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe are expected to provide an update Thursday on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and discuss the public health agency’s ongoing response to the pandemic.
Ontario reported 1,038 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 289,621.
Officials have also included a section for confirmed variant cases and have listed 348 U.K. variant cases (B.1.1.7), 10 South African variant cases (B.1.351), and one Brazilian variant case (P.1) detected so far in the province.
The death toll in the province rose to 6,773 as 44 more deaths were reported.
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