Waterloo Region has most new COVID-19 cases in Ontario for 2nd straight day

For the second straight day, and third time in a week, Waterloo had the most new COVID-19 cases in Ontario, according to provincial data.

The Ontario government reported another 256 new positive tests for the coronavirus Friday, with 39 of those cases coming from Waterloo Region.

That was only one more case than Peel Region, which had 38 new COVID-19 cases, with 36 others coming from Toronto.

While this is bad news for Waterloo Region residents, it is still a better number than Thursday, when 91 new cases were reported in the area.

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That number was much lower when Waterloo Public Health released its numbers as it reported 63 new cases in the area.

The agency releases its numbers at 1:30 p.m. based upon data collected at 11:59 p.m. the night before, whereas the province collects its data at 1 p.m. the previous day.

Waterloo Public Health reported its lowest number of new cases in more than two weeks on Friday.

It says 35 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising the total number of cases in the area to 17,304.

This drops the seven-day rolling average number of new cases to 55.7, a figure that stood at 63.4 a week earlier.

—With files from Global News’ Gabby Rodrigues