COVID-19 cases in the last month, but not a “surge” amid spikes in some areas of the province.Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said during a board of health meeting on Monday she was not aware of suggestions Ontario may be in a fifth wave of the pandemic following upticks which saw 1,000 new daily cases reported twice last week.“Some areas experience waves at slightly different timing than others,” Richardson said.“For example, if you go back a ways, Ottawa didn’t experience a second wave…they just kind of had the wavelets that continued on.”Hamilton’s director of epidemiology, Michelle Baird, says the province has not characterized recent increases as a fifth wave.