Public Health Ontario has reported 2,964 new cases of COVID-19 today.
The province reported 25 deaths in today's update. Of those, 15 were residents of long-term care homes. Two of the deaths reported today were individuals between 20 and 39 years old, eight were between 60 and 79 years old, and 15 were over the age of 80.
Since yesterday, 100 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19, and 25 COVID patients have been admitted to intensive care units.
Today's two updates provided by the province's public health agency today also reported the following:
- 2,175 new recoveries
- 998 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 1,003 reported yesterday.
- There are 329 COVID patients in intensive care units (up from 322 on yesterday) and 228 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 220 yesterday)
- 23,611 current active cases in Ontario, which is up from 22,847 reported yesterday
- The province reported 49,803 tests processed yesterday resulting in a per cent positivity rate of 5.6 per cent. The province's goal is three per cent.
- Of the 2,964 cases reported today, 786 are from Toronto, 346 are from Peel, 308 are from York Region, and 58 are from Simcoe-Muskoka.
- Based on case data reported today, the new cases include 385 people under 20, 1,095 people between 20 and 39 years old, 900 people between 40 and 59 years old, 420 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 160 people over the age of 80.
- There were 4,305 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday. There have been 33,191 doses of the vaccines administered to date. The vaccine approved for use requires two doses given 21 days apart.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 190,962 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 162,701 recoveries and 4,650 deaths, of which 2,829 were individuals living in long-term care homes
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,284.7 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario. The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 114.7 cases per 100,000 people from Dec. 24 to Dec. 30, which is up by 7.5 per cent compared to Dec. 18-24 when the average weekly incidence rate was 106.7 cases per 100,000 people.
On Dec. 31, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 74 new cases of COVID-19 in the region. The health unit will not be posting another update until the afternoon of Jan. 4.
The local health unit has now confirmed 3,589 cases of COVID-19 with 2,507 of those cases recovered and 66 cases ending in death. There are more than 950 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the region, with the majority of those in Simcoe County.
There are at least 32 people from Simcoe County hospitalized.
Approximately half of all new infections reported by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit in December were linked to close contact with another case. About 20 per cent were reported as community-acquired, which means there is no known source of infection.
For the latest breakdown of cases in the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit, click here. The health unit will not be providing a local case update until later this afternoon.
The Ontario government has implemented a province-wide shutdown. Details on the shutdown are available on the province's website here.
