Ontario Reports 573 New COVID-19 Cases, 10 More Deaths | The Canadian News

Ontario reported 573 new COVID-19 cases on Friday as the seven-day average and active cases continue to decline. The total number of provincial cases now stands at 590,677.

Of the 573 new cases recorded, the data showed that 300 were unvaccinated, 33 were partially vaccinated, 192 were fully vaccinated, and the vaccination status of 48 people was unknown.

According to friday report, 104 cases were recorded in Toronto, 80 in the Peel region, 41 in the York region, 35 in Windsor-Essex, 34 in Ottawa and 31 in Middlesex-London.

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 9,786, as 10 more deaths were recorded.

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

At 8 p.m. Thursday, 30,575 vaccines (11,298 for a first injection and 19,277 for a second injection) were administered on the last day.

There are more than 10.6 million people fully immunized with two doses, representing 82% of the eligible population (12 years and over). The coverage of the first dose is 86.8%.

Meanwhile, 576,374 Ontario residents were reported to have recovered from COVID-19, which is about 97 percent of known cases. The solved cases increased by 621 compared to the previous day.

Active cases in Ontario now stand at 4,517, down from the previous day when it was at 4,575, and down from October 1 when it was at 4,969. 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, which is 551 below yesterday’s 565, and is also below the previous week when it was 597. A month ago, the seven-day average was around 700.

The government said 37,118 tests were processed in the previous 24 hours. Currently 13,993 tests are being investigated.

The positivity of the test reached 1.8 percent. Last week, the positivity of the test was also 1.8 percent.

Ontario Hospitalizations

Ontario reported that 271 people in general hospital wards had COVID-19 (eight fewer than the day before) with 154 patients in intensive care units (five more) and 129 patients in intensive care units on a ventilator (four 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.

Provincial officials recently announced that they would begin to include the vaccination status of those hospitalized due to COVID-19 as part of their daily COVID-19 data reports. They noted that the new dataset will grow and improve over time as more information is collected. There may be a discrepancy due to how and when information from both is collected.

For those in general hospital wards with COVID, 107 were not vaccinated, 13 were partially vaccinated, and 43 were fully vaccinated. For those in ICU, 73 were not vaccinated, while 11 were partially vaccinated and 15 were fully vaccinated.

Worrisome variants in Ontario

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

VOC B.1.1.7 ‘Alpha’ (first detected in UK): 146,485 variant cases, unchanged from the previous day. This strain dominated the third wave of Ontario.

“Delta” VOC B.1.617.2 (first detected in India): 19,080 variant cases, representing an increase of 101 from the previous day. This strain dominates the fourth wave of Ontario.

VOC B.1.351 “Beta” (first detected in South Africa): 1,503 variant cases, unchanged from the previous day.

“Gamma” the P.1 VOC (detected for the first time in Brazil): 5,229 variant cases, which remains unchanged from the previous day.

NOTE: It takes several days for positive COVID-19 tests to be retested to determine the exact variant. Therefore, there may be more variant cases than general cases in the daily reports.

More to come.

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