Ontario Reports Another 5,790 COVID-19 Cases and Seven More Deaths, according to your latest report released Thursday morning.
Vaccines
Ontario has administered 253,258 vaccine dose since its last daily update, with 26,113,307 vaccinations administered in total at 8 pm the night before.
The provincial data now includes a cumulative number of people who have received booster doses. In Ontario, 2,567,601 people have received three doses of any Health Canada approved vaccine.
According to Star’s vaccine tracker, 12,148,870 people in Ontario have received at least one injection. That is roughly 86.7 percent of the eligible population ages five and older and the equivalent of 82.6 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province says 11,379,811 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received both doses. That’s roughly 81.2 percent of the eligible population ages five and older, and the equivalent of 77.4 percent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.
Hospitalizations by vaccine status
The province 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 971 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 222 were partially vaccinated, and 4,392 cases were fully vaccinated. The province says that even with a highly effective vaccine, cases can occur among vaccinated people because a greater proportion of the population is vaccinated than unvaccinated. 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.
COVID in schools
The province also includes data on COVID-19 in schools as part of its daily reports.
There are 1,151 schools with a reported COVID case out of 4,844 schools in the province, or 23.76 percent.
There are 91 new cases reported Thursday for a total of 11,961 school-related COVID cases reported in Ontario.
The province says 21 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.
COVID test
The seven-day average is 4,002 cases per day.
The province says 68,191 tests were completed the day before and a positivity rate of 16.0 percent.
There are currently 440 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 156 intensive care patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 106 people with fans.
Locally, Ontario reports 1,527 new cases in Toronto, 491 in the Peel region, 486 in Ottawa, 470 in the York region, 334 in the Durham region, and 259 in the Halton region.
COVID in long-term care
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 3,832, in the latest report published by the province.
Ontario reports an outbreak of more than one long-term care home, for a total of 19 or 3.0 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.
Variants of concern
There are 140 more cases of the Delta variant detected for the first time in India, for a cumulative total of 15,888 cases.
There are 63 more cases of the Omicron variant first identified by South Africa, for a cumulative total of 995 cases.
Reference-www.thestar.com