Ontario reports another 711 COVID-19 cases and five more deaths, according to your latest report released Thursday morning.
Ontario has administered 13,862 vaccine dose since its last daily update, with 22,762,199 vaccinations administered in total at 8 pm the night before.
According to Star’s vaccine tracker, 11,583,723 people in Ontario have received at least one injection. That’s roughly 88.9 percent of the eligible population 12 and older, and the equivalent of 77.9 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province says 11,178,476 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received both doses. That is roughly 85.8 percent of the eligible population ages 12 and older, and the equivalent of 75.2 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 322 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 28 were partially vaccinated, and 314 cases in fully vaccinated people. 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 also includes data on COVID-19 in schools as part of its daily reports.
There are 589 schools with a reported COVID case out of 4,844 schools in the province, or 12.16 percent.
There are 129 new cases reported Thursday for a total of 6,132 school-related COVID cases reported in Ontario.
The province says five 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 34,347 tests were completed the day before and a positivity rate of 2.0 percent.
There are currently 278 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 104 intensive care patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 78 people with fans.
Locally, Ontario reports 74 new cases in Toronto, 71 in Windsor-Essex, 42 in Ottawa, 40 in the Peel region, 39 in the York region, and 33 in the Durham region.
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 are no new long-term care homes in the outbreak, for a total of two or 0.3 percent of LTC homes in the province.
These data are self-reported by long-term care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. The 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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