Ontario is seeing a slowing growth rate in Covid-19 cases with the numbers moving away from the worst-case scenario that had been projected for this time.
That from Ontario Health Officials today who still say they are projecting between 800-1200 daily cases for the next while.
Adalsteinn Brown, Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T delivered the news this afternoon.
Brown said there is slower growth in the number of cases and hospitalizations, and a more positive picture for intensive care use.
“Most indicators are showing a slowing growth in Covid-19 cases,” he said. “The trajectory appears to be moving away from the worst-case (scenario), but cases are continuing to climb – and so this is not that we have crested and are now coming back down the other side of the epidemic curve, we are just getting to a slower period of growth within that curve.”
Brown also says we are starting to see a sharper growth of cases province-wide in long term care homes.
Today Ontario reported 934 new Covid-19 cases.
(Photo via Adalsteinn Brown’s Twitter Account)