Ontario is reporting just over 1,200 new COVID-19 cases.
Health officials are confirming 1,273 new cases in today's update after almost 40,900 tests were processed.
That number is up from yesterday's 1,135.
The province had been reporting 5 days of steadily decreasing daily case numbers until Wednesday, when a slight bump was recorded. Since then, numbers have been slowly creeping up with 1,095 on Wednesday and 1,135 yesterday