coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 272,097.The daily case total comes amid the provincial government and Toronto Public Health’s migration and reconciling of data, which has been impacting daily counts for several days.“On February 1, Toronto Public Health (TPH) migrated COVID-19 data to CCM from their local CORES system,” Wednesday’s report indicated. “As data quality checks and remediation activities continue this week, fluctuations may occur.”Wednesday’s case count is higher than Tuesday’s, which saw 754 new infections.
But officials said the low number was an underestimation due to the data system migration. On Monday, 1,969 new cases were recorded and 1,848 on Sunday.“Locally, there are 444 new cases in Toronto,.