There are just 20 active COVID-19 cases remaining in the area, Waterloo Public Health reported in its daily update Thursday.
That is almost half the 36 cases that were listed by the agency on Wednesday.
“Our case numbers have been encouraging,” Dr. Julie Emili, Waterloo’s acting associate medical officer of health said. “We know that the virus is spread by people so these numbers speak to the value and importance of public health measures, and our residents’ commitment to adapting to our ‘new normal’.
“Even as we see the numbers go down, we need to remember that we continue to have a role to play and together these measures are making a difference.”
Fifteen of those cases were people who were cleared of the virus while the 16th person was transferred to another public health unit, according to a Waterloo Public Health spokesperson.
No new positive tests for the coronavirus were announced Thursday, which means the overall number of cases also falls by one to 1,394.
There is also just one person remaining in hospital after 11 were reported on Wednesday. The spokesperson says that was the result of a data dump.
The outbreaks at A.R. Goudie in Kitchener and Columbia Forest remain active. The former outbreak began earlier this week when a resident tested positive, and the latter started on July 23 when a staff member tested positive. There have been no more cases reported at either long-term-care home since.
There were no new COVID-19-related deaths reported on Wednesday, leaving the total number of deaths at 119. No new deaths have been reported in the area since July 17.
Ontario reported 95 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 39,809.
This is the fourth day in a row Ontario has seen case counts lower than 100.
The death toll in the province has risen to 2,783 as one new death was reported.
— With files from Global News’ Gabby Rodrigues
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