A hike in the number of active cases of COVID-19 in the region.
The latest Northwestern Health Unit report shows an increase in high-risk cases at 196, up from 138 Monday.
The good news is that in terms of the positivity rate, it keeps going down.
It now stands at 17.6%, a decrease of 1.5% from the start of the week.
It was also two years today that Ontario first declared a state of emergency because of the pandemic.
It resulted in business and school shutdowns, the implementation of masking, physical distancing
The virus has since infected more than 1.1 million Ontarians, with almost 13,000 deaths.
University of Toronto Professor Jen Gommerman says the effectiveness of having three doses of vaccines, especially with the Omicron variant, has been a key discovery.
She says the government also put new research networks she hopes stay in place.
Dr. Ross Upshur, the Head of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto, says it also revealed our ability to respond.
“Learnt that we have the capacity to rapidly identify variants, to rapidly develop, implement and evaluate vaccines. And the same for therapeutics and diagnostics.
Dr. Upshur would like to see Canada work to become a stronger leader in pandemic response.
(With files from Tim Davidson)
