The COVID-19 pandemic

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SUNDAY 2020-10-04

Waterloo Region reported seven new cases for today (5.5% of the active cases) -- but with seven additional cases for yesterday (now 22 cases total, 13.8% of actives).  84 new cases for the week (+5), averaging 7.8% of active cases. 127 active cases (-29 in the last seven days).

Next testing report on Tuesday.

Ontario reported 566 new cases today with a seven-day average of 624, still going up. 534 recoveries and three deaths (plus four earlier ones from spring/summer data cleansing) translated to a increase of 29 active cases (net of those four) and a current total of 5,405. A weekly total change of +1,324 active cases (again, net). 39,661 tests for a 1.43% positivity rate. The positivity rate is averaging 1.56% for the past seven days.

ICU patient count was not reported today.

• 196 cases in Toronto: 6.0 per 100K population
  
• 123 cases in Peel: 12.3 per 100K
  
• 81 cases in Ottawa: 8.1 per 100K
  
• 42 cases in York: 3.9 per 100K
  
• 25 cases in Halton: 4.0 per 100K
  
• 14 cases in Waterloo: 2.2 per 100K (based on provincial reporting)