The Ministry of Health Wednesday reports 510 new cases of COVID-19 and 37 new deaths. This number is down somewhat from recent daily reports. It comes as provincial health officials say Ontario will have to see the number of new cases confirmed each day go down to 200 or fewer before steps can be taken reopen the economy. “We can’t wait till we get no cases for two weeks,” Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe said. “We may be in our current state for a very long time if we do that, but we do need to have a very good system of active surveillance and identifying cases.” There are now 12,245 confirmed cases in Ontario, including 6,221 recoveries and 659 deaths.
