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Ontario Hospital Association calls for more lockdowns as COVID-19 cases surge to 2,432 provincial government to implement a four-week lockdown in every public health unit with an infection rate of 40 people per 100,000 or higher. "The situation is extremely serious," the association stated on Thursday. "We are now in the holiday season and if members of the public choose to ignore public health measures and gather outside their households, the consequences risk overwhelming Ontario's hospitals." Based on current provincial data, the association's request would move an additional 15 health units into lockdown: Niagara, Hamilton, Halton, Durham, Brant, Haldimand- Norfolk, Middlesex-London, Southwestern Public Health, Huron-Perth, Waterloo, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, Simcoe-Muskoka, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington, Eastern Ontario Health Unit, and Thunder Bay. A reporter asked Premier Doug Ford, who was at a media conference on Thursday afternoon at George Brown College's waterfront campus in Toronto, to comment on the association's request. "It's very, very concerning, the situation we're facing," Ford replied. "Right now, we are going to continue consulting with the CEO of the hospitals as well as Anthony Dale, the CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association." "Everything's on the table," he added. "We always take the advice from the medical experts." In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 10 new cases to report and 15 additional cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region decreasing by 3 to 123. Most of today's new cases are in Toronto (737), Peel (434), York (209), Windsor-Essex (190), Hamilton (142), and Halton (104). There are double-digit increases in Waterloo (77), Durham (73), Ottawa (70), Wellington- Dufferin-Guelph (65), Middlesex-London (63), Simcoe Muskoka (47), Niagara (45), Southwestern Public Health (35), Eastern Ontario Health Unit (19), Huron Perth (17), Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (16), and Lambton (11), with smaller increases in Grey Bruce (9), Thunder Bay (8), Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit (7), Peterborough (7), Leeds, Grenville & Lanark (6), and Chatham-Kent (6). The remaining 10 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 6 health units reporting no new cases at all. Of today's cases, 51% are among people under 40 years of age, with the highest number of cases (886) among people ages 20 to 39 followed by 674 cases among people ages 40 to 59. With 2,009 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has 2/7