The COVID-19 pandemic

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Waterloo Region's reporting system is back! It all looks basically the same, but they did tweak a bunch of earlier data points.

Today they reported five new cases, or 0.4% of the total and 12.5% of the active cases. New cases averaging 10.9% of active cases over the past seven days, and the active cases have gone up from 26 to 40 over the same time period.

An average of 254 tests per day for the past six days, for an average positivity rate of 1.47% Both the positivity rate and the number of new cases are up substantially over the past week, and the active caseload has popped up from the low of 20 (two weeks ago) to 40 today.

Ontario reported 125 new cases today with a seven-day average of 97. 90 recoveries and four deaths translated to an increase of 31 active cases and a total of 951 active cases. A weekly total change of -1, down by just a single case. 23,067 tests for a 0.54% positivity rate . The positivity rate is averaging 0.37% for the past seven days.

The new cases are 0.3% of the total and 13.1% of the number of active cases. New cases averaging 10.6% of actives over the past seven days.

• 28 cases in Windsor-Essex: 15.6 per 100K population
  
• 27 cases in Toronto: 0.8 per 100K population
  
• 17 cases in Peel: 1.7 per 100K population
  
• 12 cases in Waterloo: 1.3 per 100K population (including delayed reporting from system switchover)
  

Windsor is back in the news ...