WATERLOO -- Starting Saturday, Region of Waterloo Public Health will no longer be updating daily COVID-19 case counts and other pandemic related statistics on the weekend.

During Friday’s COVID-19 Community Update, medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang said Public Health’s dashboard will now be updated Monday to Friday.

“As of this weekend we will no longer be updating the COVID-19 daily case counts and summary dashboard on the weekends,” Dr. Wang said. “With our COVID-19 situation relatively stable, this will give our staff more time to rest.”

Public Health will continue to update regional case numbers on weekdays at 1:30 p.m.

15 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Friday, bringing the area total to 19,890.