Niagara Region Public Health Reports Five New COVID-19 Related Deaths

Monday, 27 April 2020 12:47

By Marcie Culbert

Niagara Region Public Health is reporting 10 new cases of COVID-19 today and five new deaths.

This brings its total number of cases to 461, but this includes 174 resolved cases.

It says forty-two people have died.

Long-term care and retirement home residents make up almost 32 percent of Niagara’s total cases and more than 85 percent of Niagara’s total deaths.

We have 424 new cases and 57 new deaths across Ontario.

This means we now have 14,856 cases province-wide and the death toll has reached 892.

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