Ontario health officials unveiled the latest COVID-19 modelling numbers on Thursday, which highlighted the province could be headed towards daily numbers upwards of 6,000 cases by mid-December.

Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown, the dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, discussed the updated modelling projections alongside Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams.

The modelling warns that Ontario could hit 2,500 cases per day at a three per cent growth and around 6,500 a day at a five per cent growth rate by mid-December, according to government documents.

If case growth does indeed hit five per cent, the documents say Ontario’s numbers would potentially exceed the numbers seen in multiple European countries who are currently in some level of lockdown, including France and the U.K.

Williams said residents in Ontario need to return to their practices from the first wave. Asked about a possible lockdown and what it might look like, he said there's many questions that have to be answered, but they "have to answered fairly soon."

Ontario reported 1,575 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and now has a case total of 88, 209 and a death toll of 3,275 people.

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