COVID cases on Friday, as daily positive infections continue to rise rapidly amid the highly contagious Omicron variant. The provincial case total now stands at 642,465.For comparison, last Friday saw 1,453 new cases and the previous Friday saw 1,031.Over the last three days, there were 2,421 new cases reported Thursday, 1,808 on Wednesday, and 1,429 on Tuesday.
Friday’s count is the highest one-day total since May 8 when 3,193 new cases were recorded.The most number of cases ever reported in a single day throughout the pandemic was on April 16 when there were 4,812 new cases amid the third wave when the province was under a strict lockdown and when a large portion of the population was still unvaccinated.