Ontario reports another 591 COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths, according to your latest report released Wednesday morning.
Ontario has administered 12,706 vaccine dose since its last daily update, with 22,833,157 vaccinations administered in total at 8pm the night before.
According to Star’s vaccine tracker, 11,609,824 people in Ontario have received at least one injection. That works out to roughly 89.1 percent of the eligible population ages 12 and older, and the equivalent of 78.1 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province says 11,223,333 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received both doses. That is roughly 86.1 percent of the eligible population 12 and older, and the equivalent of 75.5 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province now 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 293 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 14 were partially vaccinated, and 237 cases were fully vaccinated. 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.
The province also includes data on COVID-19 in schools as part of its daily reports.
There are 666 schools with a reported COVID case out of 4,844 schools in the province, or 13.75 percent.
There are 170 new cases reported Wednesday for a total of 6,775 school-related COVID cases reported in Ontario.
The province says 15 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.
The province says 30,092 tests were completed the day before and a positivity rate of 2.5 percent.
There are currently 289 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 118 intensive care patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 84 people with fans.
Locally, Ontario reports 74 new cases in Toronto, 63 in Windsor-Essex, 48 in the York region, 43 in the Peel region, 27 in the Durham region, and 23 in Ottawa.
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 3,824, in the latest report published by the province.
Ontario reports that there is one more long-term care home in the outbreak, for a total of four or 0.6 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 the figures published by local public health units due to delays in reporting time.
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