June 10, 2020

FEDERAL

Prime Minister Trudeau did not address Canadians today

PROVINCIAL

The Minister began his address by expressing gratitude to the faculty of all educational
institutions, and highlighted the effort they undertook to provide online courses
 Announced a pilot program for re-opening post-secondary institutions;
o from July 2 to August 31 for ‘academically stranded’ students needing to finish in-lab or
in-person practicums
o health and safety measures must be followed
o will have peer-to-peer monitoring component
 In addition to lessons learned and best practices from this pilot program, Minister Romano said they will do full consultations over the summer to develop strategies for the broader re-opening in September
 The Minister ended his remarks by saying Ontario has the most advanced research sectors in the world – never again will the people of Ontario fail to reap all of the benefits they can through breakthroughs in research that happens in Ontario, and paid for by Ontario taxpayers

YORK REGION

· COVID-19 daily test numbers have doubled since late May in York Region

· York Region encourages parents to watch for these symptoms if concerned your child had contact with the virus

· YorkRegion.com featured a story on how York Region’s COVID-19 dashboard helps residents monitor spread

· As hospitals resume elective surgeries and procedures, the demand for blood is returning to pre-COVID-19 levels

York Region and ventureLAB announce recipients of Entrepreneurship and Innovation FundYork.

Region Chairman and CEO recognizes June as Seniors Month.

Penmore Financial Group showed their #SpiritofYR by generously providing individual lunches to paramedics today

Below is a summary of the detailed information contained in the Interactive Dashboard – Cases at //york.ca/covid19data. As of June 10, at 5 p.m. there are:

2,712 total confirmed cases 17 new cases* since yesterday54 confirmed cases in hospital, 18 of which are in Intensive Care328 cases among health care workers, of which 285 cases have resolved*3 new fatalities225 total confirmed fatalities 2,020 resolved cases10 institutional outbreaks under COVID-19 protocols: 4 Long-Term Care/Retirement Homes 6 Community Care Settings 0 Hospital 0 Child Care Centre0 Emergency Housing 55 institutional outbreaks declared over.

*Data quality is an ongoing process and may result in the more/less cases reported on a day-over-day basis or other changes to how cases are classified (e.g., municipality, acquisition, etc.). These data quality activities have also resulted in the re-categorization of individuals. Data quality activities do not increase or decrease total case counts.

All dashboard data, including case demographics and institutional outbreaks (including the number of resident and health care worker positive cases), can be found by clicking on the “COVID-19 in York Region” box, or for quick reference, is available here. The data can still be filtered by municipality.

COMBINED CASE NUMBERS:

31,341 total cases (25,380 resolved); with 2,475 related fatalities in Ontario 96,653 total cases (409 increase in last 24 hours); with 7,897 related fatalities in Canada (62 new in the last 24 hours)Over 7.1 million total cases worldwide with cases in 216 countries, areas or territories; 408,025 related fatalities reported to WHO

KING TOWNSHIP

1 new reported case today bringing our total cases to 38. Currently there are 10 active cases, 25 resolved and sadly 3 deaths.