Ontario is reporting 636 COVID-19 cases, according to its latest report released Sunday morning, the highest daily increase in a month.
This is about 50 per cent more than last Sunday, and the most since Oct. 9 when the province announced 654 cases.
Two more deaths were also reported.
Ontario has administered 12,754 vaccine doses since its last daily update, with 22,606,903 vaccines given in total as of 8 p.m. Saturday night.
According to the Star’s vaccine tracker, 11,528,900 people in Ontario have received at least one shot. That works out to approximately 88.4 per cent of the eligible population 12 years and older, and the equivalent of 77.6 per cent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province says 11,078,003 people have completed their vaccinations, which means they’ve had both doses. That works out to just under 85 per cent of the eligible population 12 years and older, and the equivalent of 74 per cent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province now includes data that reflects hospitalizations and cases by vaccination status. Ontario warns that the process may cause discrepancies between other hospitalization numbers being collected using a different process, and that the data may not match daily COVID-19 case counts.
The province reports 325 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 15 were partially vaccinated, and 248 cases in fully vaccinated people. Again, the province warns the data may not match daily COVID case counts because records with a missing or invalid health card number can’t be linked.
The province says that data on hospitalizations by vaccination status won’t be updated on Sundays and Mondays due to incomplete weekend reporting.
The seven-day average is at 468 cases daily.
The province says 27,146 tests were completed the previous day, and a two per cent positivity rate.
There are 93 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, with 126 in intensive care and 67 on ventilators.
Locally, there are 60 cases in Toronto, 41 in Peel and 49 in York.
Meanwhile, the province is reporting that there are no new deaths in long-term-care so the number of residents who have died stays the same at 4,022.
This data is self-reported by the long-term-care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. Daily case and death figures may not immediately match the numbers posted by the local public health units due to lags in reporting time.
There are two more confirmed cases of the Alpha variant first detected in the United Kingdom, for a cumulative total of 146,513 cases.
There are no new cases in Ontario of the Beta variant first detected in South Africa, for a cumulative total of 1,503 cases.
There are no new cases of the Gamma variant first found in Brazil, for a cumulative total of 5,231 cases.
There are 257 more cases of the Delta variant first detected in India, for a cumulative total of 21,709 cases.
Article From: The Star
Author: Lloyd Quansah
