Public Health is reporting 263 cases of COVID-19 in Niagara Region residents and 93 resolved cases.
It says 12.2 percent of them are in health care workers and 28.5 percent live in long-term care or retirement homes.
We have 483 new cases of the virus across Ontario and 43 new deaths.
This is a 6.5 percent increase compared to yesterday’s numbers.
We now have 7,953 cases of COVID-19 province-wide and our death toll is over 334.
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