Public Health Ontario has reported 334 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (June 18).
This is the fourth consecutive day the province has reported fewer than 400 new cases. In the last seven days, Ontario has recorded 2,874 new COVID cases.
Today's update also includes 624 new recoveries and one death – an individual over 79 years old.
Since yesterday's update, there have been 37 new hospitalizations, and 11 more COVID patients admitted to intensive care units.
The June 17 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 4,110 active, lab-confirmed cases, down from 4,390 yesterday.
- 378 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 397 yesterday.
- There are 352 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (59 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 221 COVID patients on ventilators (down from 232 reported yesterday).
- The province reported 26,643 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 1.4 per cent positivity rate.
- There are 11,236 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 15.6 million tests to date.
- Of the new cases reported today, 50 are from Toronto, 50 cases are from Peel, and seven are from Simcoe-Muskoka.
- Today's cases include 65 individuals aged 19 and under, 158 people between 20 and 39 years old, 72 people between 40 and 59 years old, 40 people between 60 and 79 years old, and ten people aged 80 and over.
Vaccines
- There were 210,638 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, up from 210,611 doses administered on June 16.
- 12,153,663 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 2,547,241 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 541,525 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 528,421 recoveries and 8,994 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 3,643.1 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average weekly incidence rate is 22.1 cases per 100,000 people, which is down by 26.4 per cent from the prior seven-day period.
Simcoe-Muskoka
Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 12 new COVID cases.
There are 135 active cases in the region.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 12,182 cases of COVID-19 with 11,381 of those cases recovered and 246 cases ending in death.
There are 19 people from Simcoe County and one person from Muskoka District hospitalized with COVID-19.
The weekly incidence rate for Simcoe-Muskoka is 15.2 cases per 100,000 people between June 8 and 14, which is down by 36.1 per cent compared to the week of June 2-8.
