Ontario Reports 395 New Omicron Cases as Vaccines Pass the 200K Mark for the First Time in Months

Ontario Reports Another 3,453 COVID-19 Cases and 11 More Deaths, according to your latest report released Tuesday morning.

Vaccines

Ontario has administered 206,595 vaccine dose since its last daily update, with 25,629,533 vaccinations administered in total at 8 pm the night before.

The provincial data now includes a cumulative number of people who have received booster doses. In Ontario, 2,126,049 people have received three doses of any Health Canada approved vaccine.

According to Star’s vaccine tracker, 12,119,220 people in Ontario have received at least one injection. That equates to roughly 86.5% of the eligible population ages five and older and the equivalent of 82.4% of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.

The province says 11,367,446 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received both doses. That works out to about 81.1 percent of the eligible population ages five and older, and the equivalent of 77.3 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.

Hospitalizations by vaccine status

The province includes data that reflects hospitalizations and cases by vaccination status. Ontario cautions that the new process may cause discrepancies between other hospitalization numbers that are collected through a different process, and that the data may not match daily COVID-19 case counts.

The province reports that 673 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 132 were partially vaccinated, and 2,500 cases were fully vaccinated. The province says that even with a highly effective vaccine, cases can occur among vaccinated people because a greater proportion of the population is vaccinated than unvaccinated. Again, the province cautions that the data may not match daily COVID case counts because records with a missing or invalid health card number cannot be linked.

The province says data on hospitalizations by vaccination status will not be updated on Sundays and Mondays due to incomplete weekend reports.

COVID in schools

The province also includes data on COVID-19 in schools as part of its daily reports.

There are 1,248 schools with a reported COVID case out of 4,844 schools in the province, or 25.76 percent.

There are 211 new cases reported Tuesday for a total of 11,777 school-related COVID cases reported in Ontario.

The province says 10 schools have closed due to outbreaks or operational considerations. It does not include regional closures in a local public health unit area.

To find out if there are COVID cases in your child’s school, use Star’s tracking tool to search.

COVID test

The province says 49,285 tests were completed the day before and a positivity rate of 9.9 percent.

There are currently 412 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 153 intensive care patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 105 people with fans.

Locally, Ontario reports 901 new cases in Toronto, 359 in Ottawa, 345 in the York region, 280 in the Peel region, 245 in the Halton region, 118 in Kingston, and 160 in the Durham region.

COVID in long-term care

Meanwhile, the province reports that there are no new deaths in long-term care, so the number of residents who have died remains the same at 3,831. in the latest report published by the province.

Ontario reports two more long-term care homes in the outbreak, for a total of 19 or 3.0 percent of LTC homes in the province.

These data are self-reported by long-term care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. Daily case and death figures may not immediately match figures published by local public health units due to delays in reporting time.

Variants of concern

There are 569 more cases of the Delta variant first detected in India, for a cumulative total of 15,290 cases.

There are 395 more cases of the Omicron variant first identified by South Africa, for a cumulative total of 735 cases.