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Ontario reports 194 new COVID cases Wednesday

The province reported zero new deaths in today's update
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Public Health Ontario has reported 194 new COVID-19 cases today and zero new deaths in the July 7 daily update.

Today's update notes 236 new recoveries and 19 new hospitalizations. 

The July 7 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:

  • 1,841 active, lab-confirmed cases, down from 1,883 yesterday.
  • 201 COVID-positive people are currently hospitalized in Ontario.
  • There are 220 patients in intensive care units with COVID-related illness (of those, 57 no longer test positive for COVID-19).
  • 163 people are on ventilators due to COVID-related illness (of those, 35 no longer test positive for COVID-19).
  • The province reported 26,976 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 0.9 per cent positivity rate. 
  • There are 12,072 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 16 million tests to date.
  • Of the new cases reported today, 42 are from Waterloo, 35 are from Toronto, 26 cases are from Peel, one is from Simcoe-Muskoka, 11 are from Grey Bruce, and three are from York Region.
  • Today's cases include 32 individuals aged 19 and under, 76 people between 20 and 39 years old, 76 people between 40 and 59 years old, 28 people between 60 and 79 years old, and six people aged 80 and over.

Vaccines

  • There were 204,594 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday.
  • 16,126,179 doses of vaccine have been administered.
  • In total, 6,069,647 people have been fully vaccinated.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 546,411 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 535,346 recoveries and 9,224 deaths.

The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 3,676 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.

Ontario's average weekly incidence rate is 10 cases per 100,000 people, which is down by 19.4 per cent from the prior seven-day period. 

Simcoe-Muskoka

Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported four new COVID-19 cases

There are 56 active cases in the region. 

Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 12,302 cases of COVID-19 with 11,573 of those cases recovered and 251 cases ending in death.

There are 10 people from Simcoe County hospitalized with COVID-19 related illnesses.

According to the health unit, 41 per cent of the region's adult population (aged 18 and over) have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and another 35 per cent have received one dose. The remaining 24 per cent is unvaccinated. 

The weekly incidence rate in the region is five cases per 100,000, which is down by 23.1 per cent from last week.


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Erika Engel

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Erika regularly covers all things news in Collingwood as a reporter and editor. She has 15 years of experience as a local journalist
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