COVID cases on Monday, as daily positive infections continue to rise amid the highly contagious Omicron variant. The provincial case total now stands at 653,727.For comparison, last Monday saw 1,536 new cases and the previous Monday saw 887.
Over the last three days, there were 4,177 new cases reported Sunday, 3,301 on Saturday, and 3,124 on Friday.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 that included a stay-at-home order and when a large portion of the population was still unvaccinated.