Ontario Reports 552 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 More Deaths | The Canadian News

Ontario reported 552 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, as week-over-week case counts continue to rise. The total number of provincial cases now stands at 607,725.

For comparison, last Monday saw 480 new cases and the previous Monday 422. All three Mondays saw similar test volumes in the 20,000 range.

Of the 552 new cases recorded, the data showed that 286 were unvaccinated, 23 were partially vaccinated, 212 were fully vaccinated, and for 31 people the vaccination status was unknown.

According to monday report, 85 cases were recorded in Toronto, 51 in the Peel region, 49 in the York region, 44 in Simcoe Muskoka, 37 in Ottawa and 30 each in the Niagara and Windsor-Essex region All other public health units Locals reported fewer than 30 new cases in the provincial report.

The death toll in the province has risen to 9,937, as three more deaths were recorded.

Vaccinations, recoveries, tests, 7-day average in Ontario

At 8 p.m. Sunday, 7,251 vaccinations (2,541 for a first injection and 4,710 for a second injection) were administered on the last day.

There are more than 11.1 million people fully immunized with two doses, representing 85.5% of the eligible population (12 years and over). The coverage of the first dose is 88.7%.

Meanwhile, 592,803 Ontario residents were reported to have recovered from COVID-19, which is about 97 percent of known cases. Solved cases increased by 342 compared to the previous day.

Active cases in Ontario now stand at 4,985, up from the day before when it was at 4,778, and has risen since Nov. 8 when it was at 4,040. At the peak of the second wave coronavirus surge in January, active cases reached just over 30,000. In the third wave in April, active cases exceeded 43,000.

The seven-day average has now reached 573, which is up from the previous week when it was 476. A month ago, the seven-day average was around 450.

The government said 21,475 tests were processed in the previous 24 hours. 6,576 tests are currently being investigated.

The positivity of the test reached 2.2 percent. Last week, the test positivity was also 2.2 percent.

Ontario Hospitalizations

Ontario reported 138 people in general hospital wards with COVID-19 (12 more than the day before) with 141 patients in intensive care units (eight more) and 107 patients in intensive care units on a ventilator (six more).

At the peak of the third wave, which was the worst wave of hospitalizations, the province saw up to 900 ICU patients with COVID and almost 2,400 in general hospital wards.

Due to incomplete data for the weekend, the latest figures come from Saturday. For those in general hospital wards with COVID, 78 were not vaccinated, 16 were partially vaccinated, and 69 were fully vaccinated. For those in ICU, 64 were not vaccinated, while 3 were partially vaccinated and 13 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.

Worrisome variants in Ontario

Officials have listed disaggregated data for the new VOCs (variants of interest) detected so far in the province, consisting of:

Delta: 22,753 variant cases, 261 more than the previous day. This strain dominates the fourth wave of Ontario.

Alpha: 146,509 variant cases, which has not changed from the previous day. This strain dominated the third wave of Ontario.

Beta: 1,503 variant cases, unchanged from the previous day.

Gamma: 5,231 variant cases, which has not changed from the previous day.

More to come.

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