{"id":8400,"date":"2025-04-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8400"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:27:07","slug":"ontario-measles-case-count-exceeds-800-total-infections-155-new-since-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-measles-case-count-exceeds-800-total-infections-155-new-since-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario measles case count exceeds 800 total infections, 155 new since last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Ontario is reporting 155 new measles cases over the last week, pushing the province\u2019s case count to 816 since an outbreak began in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The number of new cases has increased again after a few weeks of appearing to stabilize in the 100-per-week range, which public health physicians had taken as a sign of potential optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sarah Wilson, public health physician at Public Health Ontario, says the fact that Ontario has exceeded 800 cases is striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Ontario is reporting 155 new measles cases over the last week, pushing the province\u2019s case count to 816 since an outbreak began in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The number of new cases has increased again after a few weeks of appearing to stabilize in the 100-per-week range, which public health physicians had taken as a sign of potential optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sarah Wilson, public health physician at Public Health Ontario, says the fact that Ontario has exceeded 800 cases is striking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-measles-case-count-exceeds-800-total-infections-155-new-since-last-week\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario measles case count exceeds 800 total infections, 155 new since last week<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,388,119,304],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}