Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams provided an update Friday on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and discussed the public health agency's ongoing response to the pandemic.

Ontario reported 477 new cases of the COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 19,598 cases. The death toll has risen to 1,540, as 63 more deaths were reported. Meanwhile, 13,990 people have recovered from COVID-19, which is 71.4 per cent of cases.

Williams said it looks as if the province appears to be in a “slow plateau.” The province's top doctor said case numbers aren’t coming down as quickly as he’d like to see, but it is moving “in the right direction” and noted that Friday’s report had a low positivity rate compared to the number of tests conducted.

Friday’s report marked an increase of 2.5 per cent in total cumulative cases. It also marks the highest number of cases in a single-day since the beginning of the week.

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