New cases still creep up, Peel a hotbed of community spread

The Ministry of Health reports 413 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday. This overnight number reveals a continuing slow increase in cases seen in Ontario in recent days. CP24 says that a rolling five-day average of new cases has gone from 326 on Monday to 375 Thursday.

Where is transmission occurring?

Amid concern about the need for more aggressive testing, including checks of people at large who have no symptoms, attention has also turned to places where community spread seems worse. Numbers in the linked CBC story suggest that such transmission is quite serious in Peel Region. It has ten percent of the provincial population but has seen 20 percent of infections. Ministry Peel MOH expresses concern