{"id":8882,"date":"2025-07-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2025-07-06T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:44:56","slug":"fewer-new-measles-cases-in-ontario-public-health-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/fewer-new-measles-cases-in-ontario-public-health-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer new measles cases in Ontario, public health data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; A Public Health Ontario report released Thursday suggests a continuing downward trend in new measles cases.<\/p>\n<p>The health agency reported 12 new cases in the province, down from 33 additions last week and 96 the week before that.  <\/p>\n<p>Two more people were infected with the highly contagious disease in a northern region that includes Sault Ste. Marie and surrounding areas. That region had been showing the biggest increase in cases for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, four more people were infected in southwestern Ontario \u2014 the area that was hardest hit for months. <\/p>\n<p>Public health officials acknowledged the declining trend but also noted that new cases still emerge weekly and that a reporting lag means it\u2019s possible that infections from previous weeks have not yet been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; A Public Health Ontario report released Thursday suggests a continuing downward trend in new measles cases.<\/p>\n<p>The health agency reported 12 new cases in the province, down from 33 additions last week and 96 the week before that.  <\/p>\n<p>Two more people were infected with the highly contagious disease in a northern region that includes Sault Ste. Marie and surrounding areas. That region had been showing the biggest increase in cases for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, four more people were infected in southwestern Ontario \u2014 the area that was hardest hit for months. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/fewer-new-measles-cases-in-ontario-public-health-data-shows\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fewer new measles cases in Ontario, public health data shows<\/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":[96,388,119,304,559,1345,230],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-public-health-ontario","tag-sault-ste-marie","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","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=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8883,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions\/8883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}