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Apr 7, 2020 3:41 PM -
Ontario is reporting 379 new cases of COVID-19 today, including 21 more deaths.
That brings the totals in the province to 4,726 confirmed cases, including 153 deaths and 1,802 cases that have been resolved.
The new cases represent an 8.7 percent increase over Monday, marking the second day in a row that the growth rate has been under 10 percent.
There are now 614 people in Ontario hospitalized with COVID-19, with 233 of them in intensive care and 187 of those people on ventilators.
There are at least 51 long term care homes in Ontario with one or more cases of COVID-19, and there have been at least 69 deaths in those institutions.
More than 500 health care workers in the province have tested positive, representing about 11 percent of all of the confirmed cases in Ontario.
