Ontario announced 29 COVID-19 deaths in one day on Sunday, as Mayor John Tory warned of possible increasing restrictions and epidemiological experts launched a social media campaign to bring case counts down to zero. He said the 29 deaths in the province is the highest number recorded since June 6, when there were 37 deaths reported. Imgrund calculates his figures based on reports from individual public health units, not number supplied by the province, which are lagging. At the end of May, the province was averaging 20-30 deaths a day, and Imgrund believes the numbers are headed in that direction again. He pegs the reproductive rate of the virus in Ontario at 1.1, which means the number of cases is doubling roughly every 30 days.

Source: thestar November 15, 2020 23:30 UTC