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Ontario modifies COVID-19 colour-coding system after projections of up to 7,000 daily cases by end of December Adalsteinn Brown, dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, discusses updated COVID-19 modelling projections at a media conference at Queen's Park on November 12, 2020. If current restrictions are not changed, Ontario is on track to see up to 7,000 new daily COVID-19 cases by the end of December. (Ontario Parliament screenshot) The government's decision to modify the framework comes one day after updated modelling projections presented at a media briefing on Thursday afternoon (November 12) by Dr. David Williams, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, along with Adalsteinn Brown, dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario's chief coronor and coordinator of the province's COVID-19 response. In a slide presentation during the media briefing, Brown compared Ontario's COVID-19 situation to that of European countries. When the data for the presentation was pulled together, Brown said, Ontario's seven-day daily growth rate was at three per cent, already surpassing the growth rate in Germany that resulted in a four-week partial lockdown in that country on November 2nd. By the end of December, Ontario would exceed the growth rate in France -- already in lockdown -- with between 3,000 and 4,000 daily cases by the end of December. "When we built these models a few days ago, three per cent was a reasonable way of 3/6