KITCHEN ROOM –
Health officials in the Waterloo region reported 60 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend.
Monday’s update includes 10 cases from Sunday, 27 from Saturday, and 23 from Friday.
The latest cases bring the Waterloo region to 20,893 COVID-19 cases to date, including 20,349 recoveries and 307 deaths. Active cases were down by 13, now 235.
There are seven people receiving treatment for COVID-19 in area hospitals, including three in the ICU.
There are 12 active outbreaks in the region.
Another 92 cases tested positive for a variant of concern.
The breakdown of the 7,184 variant cases is as follows:
- 3,127 are the Alpha variant
- 21 are the Beta variant
- 98 are the Gamma variant
- 3,676 are the Delta variant
- A mutation has been detected in 262 cases, but a variant strain has not yet been confirmed.
The region’s COVID-19 vaccine dashboard now displays data for an eligible population age five and older. The region began giving vaccines to children between the ages of five and 11 on Friday.
Of the eligible population, 82.34% have received one dose, while 79.17% are fully vaccinated.
As for the entire population of the Waterloo region, 77.97% have one dose, while 74.99% have both doses.
Ontario reported 788 cases of COVID-19 on Monday. The seven-day average for new cases is now 783, up from 656 a week ago.
The province announced its first two confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant over the weekend.
To date, Ontario has reported 617,803 laboratory-confirmed cases of the disease, including 600,990 recoveries and 9,997.
With CTV Toronto files
Reference-kitchener.ctvnews.ca