Ontario reports 848 new COVID-19 cases, another 11 deaths – CityNews Toronto

Ontario reported 848 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, an increase from 798 cases the day before.

An additional 11 deaths were also reported, but the province said six of the deaths occurred more than a month ago.

Health officials conducted 28,247 tests in the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 3.1 percent.

Of the new cases, 659 correspond to people who are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status, while 189 are fully vaccinated.

According to provincial data, 361 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 (excluding ICU) and 177 are in ICU.

Of the hospitalized patients, 331 are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status, while 30 are fully vaccinated.

Of the 177 ICU patients, 163 are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status, and 14 are fully vaccinated.

The province said that about 84 percent of Ontario residents age 12 and older have received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and about 77 percent are fully vaccinated.
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On its website the Ministry of Health states the following:

“Cases by vaccination status may not match the daily COVID-19 case count because records with a missing or invalid health card number cannot be linked.

Data on patients in the ICU is collected from two data sources that have different extraction times and public reporting cycles. This may cause discrepancies with other hospitalization numbers that are collected through a different process. “

Reference-toronto.citynews.ca

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