Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Ontario is in the 500's a day atm, with reduced testing to work through the massive backlog.

Quebec is a bit ahead of us: Quebecers need to stay at home in the coming weeks if we want to still have a chance at breaking the second wave of COVID-19, Health Minister Christian Dube is warning. Quebec health authorities reported 1,364 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, beating the province's single-day record for the second day in a row

Their first wave peaked at 1110 cases (Although there was an outlier with 2200 in a day, adding late numbers due to a computer glitch) so already consistently above the first peak. Ontario is probably not far behind, it only takes 10 days to double up at the current rate, plus with reduced testing we're back to missing more and more cases. Ontario's highest count in the first wave was 606, which we already beat with 732 on October 2nd, then testing had to be restricted since the pending backlog was over 90,000 tests.