Ontario reports 129 new COVID-19 cases, majority in Toronto and Peel regions

Ontario recorded another 129cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, making for almost two weeks of fewerthan 200 new daily cases.

The majority of today's newly-reported casesare concentrated in Toronto andPeel, Ottawa and York regions, with 36, 30, 10 and nine cases respectively.

There are now 36,723 confirmed cases of the virus in the province, with32,534 marked as resolved.

Twenty-sevenof Ontario's 34 public health units reportedfive or fewer new cases, with 18 of them reporting no new cases at all.

Ontario's network of about 30 community, commercial and hospital labs processed25,726 test samples for the novel coronavirus on Saturday. An additional16,174 tests are currently under investigation.

The province also reported threemore deaths, for a new tally of 2,719.But, a CBC News count based on data provided by public health units puts the actual toll at2,754.

The number of patients in Ontario hospitalswith confirmed infections of the novel coronaviruscontinues to decrease and now sits at 116.

Twenty-nine people are being treated in intensive care units the lowest that figure has been in months. Nineteenof those are on ventilators.

290 cases among migrant workers still active in Windsor-Essex

Despite just seven new cases today, multiple outbreaks among migrant workers on farms have driven up cases of COVID-19 in the Windsor-Essex region in recent weeks.

Hundreds of migrant workers have tested positive for the virus, and three have died two of them in Windsor-Essex and one in Norfolk County.

Dr.Wajid Ahmed, the region's medical officer of health, told CBCRadio's Fresh Air on Sundaythat five farms continue to battle outbreaks.

In total, he says, there have been 1,700 cases of the novel coronavirusin Windsor-Essex since the onset of the pandemic. Of that total, some 780 cases or 46 per cent were among temporary farm labourers, 290 of which are still considered active.

Several measures, including targeted testing and reduced contact between works, have been put in place to reduce the spread.

But it's the congregate living setting, Ahmed says,that poses a large challenge.

"Identifying those in close contact and then putting them in isolation has been a real struggle for us," he said.

"One case can affect everyone living in the same congregate setting ... that number multiplies rapidly."

On Friday,officials in Ontario's Windsor-Essex region called on the provincial or federal government to manage the farm outbreaks.