It’s the largest single day increase in COVID-19 cases in Ontario so far.
The province is reporting 426 new cases of the virus as of Wednesday morning.
The 21.7 percent increase brings the provincial total to 2 thousand 3 hundred 92 confirmed cases, with 689 patient recoveries and over 3 thousand cases still pending.
Overnight, 4 more deaths were reported in Ontario for a total of 37 deaths.
The province has tested more than 57 thousand people by late Tuesday.