COVID-19 cases.On Wednesday morning, the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Paddington announced 17 new cases overnight—making it a single-day record.“I don’t have great news for the community; we had 17 new cases overnight, so that pushes us up to 70 total cases,” said Dr.
Kieran Moore.With the surge in cases, and more than 25 people per one hundred thousand testing positive for the virus, public health says it’s preparing for the province to move the Kingston-area from the “yellow” zone to “orange” on Friday afternoon.According to the province, restrictions associated with the orange zone is as follows:The change would come into effect on Sunday night.