Ontario reports 166 new COVID-19 cases, a number that minister calls a 'slight uptick'

Ontario reported 166 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, a number that Health Minister Christine Elliott called a "slight uptick" compared to the last few days.

The province's network of labs, meanwhile, processed nearly29,000 tests for the novel coronaviruson Friday.

Ontario's health ministry saysa large portion of the new cases areconcentrated in the Toronto andWindsor-Essex regions.

The 0.4 per cent increase in cases brings the cumulative totalin Ontario since the outbreak began in late January to 37,440.

Of those,88.9per cent are considered resolved by the Ontario health ministry. Another 132infections were marked resolved in Saturday'supdate.

Twenty-eight of the province's 34 public health units reported five or fewer newly confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus, with15of them confirmingno new COVID-19 cases at all.

The cases are concentrated primarily in Torontoand Windsor-Essex, with both accounting for 47 cases each.

A total of 105 people are in hospital with the COVID-19, with 33 in intensive care unitsand 22 on ventilators.

The ministryreported an additional twoCOVID-19-linked deaths, bringing Ontario's official death toll to 2,748. A CBC News count based on data provided directly by public health units puts the actualdeathtoll at 2,781.