Public Health Ontario reported 213 new COVID cases in today's update (Aug. 5).
The report includes 183 new recoveries and 14 deaths. Twelve of the deaths reported today were from February and May 2021 and were previously unreported.
The deaths include five people between 40 and 59 years old, seven people between 60 and 79 years old, and two people over 79 years old.
Since yesterday's report, nine people have been hospitalized with COVID-19 and two people were admitted to an intensive care unit.
The August 5 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 1,706 active, lab-confirmed cases, up from 1,690 yesterday.
- 113 COVID-positive people are currently hospitalized in Ontario.
- There are 110 patients in intensive care units with COVID-related illness (of those, 32 no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- 58 people are on ventilators due to COVID-related illness (of those, 19 no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 23,494 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 1.2 per cent positivity rate.
- There are 8,669 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 16.6 million tests to date.
- Of the new cases reported today, 14 are from Waterloo, 44 are from Toronto, 31 cases are from Peel, five are from Simcoe-Muskoka, four are from Grey-Bruce, and 18 are from York Region.
- Today's cases include 32 individuals aged 19 and under, 102 people between 20 and 39 years old, 54 people between 40 and 59 years old, 19 people between 60 and 79 years old, and five people over 79 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 551,338 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 540,258 recoveries and 9,374 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 3,741.9 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average weekly incidence rate is 9.2 cases per 100,000 people, which is up by 21.1 per cent from last week.
Vaccines
- There were 58,213 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday.
- 19,710,224 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 9,189,535 people have been fully vaccinated.
Simcoe-Muskoka
Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported four new COVID cases in its first update since Friday.
There are currently 29 active cases in the region.
There are two people from Simcoe County hospitalized with COVID-19-related illnesses.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 12,385 cases of COVID-19 with 12,101 of those cases recovered and 255 cases ending in death.
The health unit has confirmed 5,068 variant cases in the region so far, with 14 of those cases still active.
Last week, the case incidence rate in Simcoe-Muskoka was 4.5 cases per 100,000 people over seven days, which is an increase of 18.4 per cent from the week of July 20 to 26.
