Public Health Ontario has reported 2,380 new cases of COVID-19 today (March 25).
Of the new cases reported today, 280 are attributed to a data catch-up, so they could be old cases but they have not been previously reported.
Today's report includes 1,329 recoveries and 17 new deaths.
Of the deaths reported today, three were individuals between 40 and 59 years old, nine were between 60 and 79 years old, and five were over the age of 79. None were residents of long-term-care facilities.
The province has reported 74 new hospitalizations since yesterday, and eight new admissions of COVID-19 patients to intensive care units.
The March 25 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 16,081 active cases, which is up from 15,047 yesterday
- 894 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, up from 893 reported yesterday.
- There are 332 COVID patients in intensive care units (down from 333 yesterday) and 212 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 210 reported yesterday)
- The province reported 60,077 tests were processed yesterday resulting in a 3.8 per cent positivity rate.
- Another 36,916 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 12.2 million tests have been completed.
- Of the 2,380 new cases reported today, 1,016 are from Toronto, 294 cases are from Peel, 244 are from York Region, and 48 are from Simcoe-Muskoka
- There are 59 active outbreaks at long-term care homes, 38 at retirement homes, and 34 at hospitals.
- The new cases reported today include 499 individuals aged 19 and under, 834 people between 20 and 39 years old, 719 people between 40 and 59 years old, 280 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 49 people aged 80 and over.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 1,458 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7).
- 51 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant).
- 54 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil.
- Another 15,657 cases have screened positive with a mutation detected, but the lineage for the variant strain not yet sequenced.
- According to Public Health Ontario, there are delays between specimen collection and the testing required to confirm a variant of concern. As such, the reports can change and can differ from past case counts publicly reported.
Vaccines
- There were 79,446 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered on March 24, which is up from 72,451 administered on March 23.
- As of 6 p.m. on March 24, the province reported 1,755,596 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered.
- In total, 304,386 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 336,070 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 312,709 recoveries and 7,280 deaths, of which 3,892 were individuals living in long-term care facilities.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 2,260.9 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 76.2 cases per 100,000 people, which is an increase of 19.6 per cent from last week (March 9-15).
Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 44 new cases.
There are 419 active, lab-confirmed cases in the region, most of which are in Simcoe County, of those 23 are hospitalized.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 7,377 cases of COVID-19 with 6,687 of those cases recovered and 195 cases ending in death.
The weekly incidence rate in Simcoe Muskoka is 47.9 cases per 100,000, which is up by 9.6 per cent compared to 43.7 cases per 100,000 last week (March 9-15).
