Ontario health officials announced 50 new coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the total to 301 active cases in the province.
The cases include four elderly patients in Durham Region who contracted COVID-19 at Hillsdale Terraces Long-Term Care Home in Oshawa.
Some patients had a travel history to the U.S., Bahamas, Portugal or the Caribbean or were on a cruise. Others had close contact with another infected person.
Most patients were listed as “pending” for transmission, which health officials have said is because they have been unable to find travel history or close contact as links for transmitting the illness, leading them to believe the person contracted the virus through community spread.