The number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 continues to grow in Ontario.
Public health officials confirmed Friday a man in his 50s is the province's seventh case of the illness.
The man went to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's emergency department with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 on Wednesday, the day after he returned to Toronto from Iran.
"The established infection prevention and control protocols were initiated; the patient was cared for at the hospital using all appropriate precautions, including being isolated as he was being tested for COVID-19," Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said in a statement. "The man was discharged home the same day and, per protocols, went into self-isolation where he remains."
This is the third case of the novel coronavirus to be confirmed in Toronto within the last three days. Williams advised Ontarians on Wednesday and Thursday of the province's fifth and sixth cases - a husband and wife in their 60s. Despite the new cases, Williams again stated the risk of being infected with COVID-19 in Ontario remains very low.
To date, there have been more than 83,000 cases reported throughout nearly 60 nations worldwide. The World Health Organization has raised the global risk assessment for the illness to "very high."