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Single-day Record For New COVID-19 Cases In Ontario
People are screened by staff as they enter North York General Hospital during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 12, 2020. Ontario reported 1,575 new COVID-19 cases today and 18 more deaths, setting a new single-day record for daily cases reported in a 24-hour period since the start of the pandemic. New modeling projections warn that Ontario could see 6,500 daily cases of COVID-19 by mid-December. The projections also suggest that the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units will exceed the 150 threshold within two weeks, overwhelming some hospitals and forcing them to cancel elective surgeries and procedures. The trajectory that the province is on now is worse than a number of European countries that are already under some form of lockdown. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto)
