Ontario Reports 512 New COVID-19 Cases, 12 More Deaths | The Canadian News

Ontario reported 512 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total provincial cases to 608,718.

Of the 512 new cases recorded, the data showed that 250 were unvaccinated, 19 were partially vaccinated, 202 were fully vaccinated, and for 41 people the vaccination status was unknown.

According to Wednesday reportThere were 54 cases in Toronto, 49 in Simcoe-Muskoka, 43 in Ottawa, and 38 in Windsor. All other local public health units reported fewer than 30 new cases in the provincial report.

The death toll in the province has risen to 9,950, as 12 more deaths were recorded.

At 8 p.m. Tuesday, 15,040 vaccinations (5,776 for a first injection and 9,264 for a second) were administered on the last day.

There are more than 11.1 million people fully immunized with two doses, representing 85.6% of the eligible population (12 years and older). The coverage of the first dose is 88.8%.

Meanwhile, 594,027 Ontario residents were reported to have recovered from COVID-19, which is about 97 percent of known cases.

Active cases in Ontario now number 4,741.

The government said 28,931 tests were processed in the previous 24 hours. Currently 12,473 tests are being investigated.

The positivity of the test remained at 2.5 percent. Last week, the positivity of the test was 3.1 percent.

Ontario reported 274 people in general hospital wards had COVID-19 (a decrease of 25 from the previous day) with 133 patients in intensive care units (a decrease of six) and 108 patients in intensive care units on a ventilator. (a decrease of four).

For those in general hospital wards with COVID, 92 were not vaccinated, 16 were partially vaccinated, and 68 were fully vaccinated. For those in ICU, 62 were not vaccinated while four were partially vaccinated and 19 were fully vaccinated.

Provincial officials noted this new dataset with vaccination status for hospitalizations it will grow and improve over time as more information is collected. There may also be a discrepancy due to how and when information from both is collected.

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