Public Health Ontario has reported 3,270 new cases of COVID-19 today.
The province reported 29 deaths in today's update. Of those, 14 were residents of long-term care homes. Two of the deaths reported today were individuals between 40 and 59 years old, 12 were between 60 and 79 years old, and 15 were over the age of 80.
Since yesterday, 70 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19, and 15 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:
- 2,074 new recoveries
- 1,190 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, up from 998 reported yesterday. The province notes more than 10 per cent of hospitals do not submit bed census data on weekends, so the number of COVID patients hospitalized could be underreported.
- There are 333 COVID patients in intensive care units (up from 329 on yesterday) and 194 COVID patients on ventilators (down from 228 yesterday)
- 24,778 current active cases in Ontario, which is up from 23,611 reported yesterday
- The province reported 39,121 tests processed yesterday resulting in a 9.7 per cent positivity rate, which is tied for the highest rate on record (the same rate was reported Dec. 29). The province's goal is three per cent.
- There is a backlog of 19,683 tests awaiting processing.
- Of the 3,270 cases reported today, 917 are from Toronto, 581 are from Peel, 389 are from York Region, and 54 are from Simcoe-Muskoka.
- Based on case data reported today, the new cases include 380 people under 20, 1,238 people between 20 and 39 years old, 979 people between 40 and 59 years old, 495 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 177 people over the age of 80.
- There were 4,808 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday. There have been 42,419 doses of the vaccines administered to date. The vaccine approved for use requires two doses given 21 days apart.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 194,232 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 164,775 recoveries and 4,679 deaths, of which 2,843 were individuals living in long-term care homes
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,306.7 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario. The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 124.1 cases per 100,000 people from Dec. 25 to Dec. 31, which is up by 17.9 per cent compared to Dec. 19-25 when the average weekly incidence rate was 105.3 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 post an update on local cases later this afternoon.
The local health unit has 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 were at least 32 people from Simcoe County hospitalized as of the Dec. 31 update.
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.
In Simcoe-Muskoka the weekly incidence rate is also on the rise with 67.7 cases per 100,000 people for the week of Dec. 25 to 31, which is up by 15.9 per cent compared to the week of Dec. 19 to 25 when the rate was 58.4 cases per 100,000 people.
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.
