last week after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the province's latest reports on the pandemic. As of Thursday, 273 people are in hospital with the novel coronavirus — the same as the week before. The government says its weekly report numbers are preliminary. It has been retroactively adjusting them due to delays in the count and the new way in which it measures weekly cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Test positivity rates are down slightly, hitting an average 7.5 per cent provincewide on Saturday, compared to 7.6 per cent the previous week.

Source: CBC News July 01, 2022 10:51 UTC