KEY UPDATES
KEY UPDATES:
The federal and provincial governments did not hold in-person announcements today
· Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam issued a statement in lieu of an in-person update to the media
Federal Minister Dominic LeBlanc will participate virtually in the Forum on Social Media Disinformation and Election Interference Monday, June 29 at 10 a.m.; a live video stream of the event will be broadcast.
Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health makes masks mandatory in commercial establishments.
Starting June 29, Dr. Kurji’s COVID-19 video updates will occur once weekly – videos will be posted to york.ca/covid19 and the Region’s Twitter and Facebook accounts on Mondays
York Region Mayors and Pflag support LGBTQ2 people and the Pride Flag; media release shared on Twitter and Facebook
CASE NUMBERS IN YORK REGION:
Below is a summary of the detailed information contained in the Interactive Dashboard – Cases at york.ca/covid19data. As of June 28, at 5 p.m. there are:
2,951 total confirmed cases 6 new cases* since yesterday34 confirmed cases in hospital, 14 of which are in Intensive Care342 cases among health care workers, of which 311 cases have resolved*2 new fatalities244 total confirmed fatalities 2,402 resolved cases4 institutional outbreaks under COVID-19 protocols: 3 Long-Term Care/Retirement Homes 1 Community Care Settings 0 Hospital 0 Child Care Centre0 Emergency Housing 62 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 workplace outbreaks, 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:
As of this morning, there are:
Over 9.8 million total cases worldwide with cases in 216 countries, areas or territories; 495,760 related fatalities reported to WHO103,032 total cases (238 new); with 8,516 related fatalities in Canada (8 new); 65,973 resolved in Canada34,654 total cases (178 new); with 2,658 related fatalities; 30,107 resolved in Ontario
KING TOWNSHIP
NO new cases reported