Public Health Ontario is reporting 4,383 new COVID cases today.
The latest updates also include 1,787 recoveries and nine deaths.
The Dec. 22 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
- There are 28,288 active cases, up from 25,702 yesterday.
- 420 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19.
- Among the new cases reported today were 746 unvaccinated, 172 partially vaccinated, and 3,243 fully vaccinated people. 222 cases were reported without vaccination status information.
- The seven-day average incidence rate by vaccination status is 26.1 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 21.1 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 22.2 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
- 168 people are in ICU due to COVID-19. Of those, 155 people are testing positive and 13 are testing negative. There are 108 people in an intensive care unit (ICU) due to COVID on a ventilator.
- Among the hospitalized cases (not in ICU) are 137 unvaccinated people, 13 partially vaccinated, and 109 fully vaccinated people.
- In the ICU there are 83 unvaccinated cases, three partially vaccinated cases, and 36 fully vaccinated cases.
- 11.3 million people in Ontario (77 per cent of the population) are fully vaccinated, and five per cent of the province has one dose of COVID vaccine.
- 2.3 million people have received a booster (third dose) since August 2021.
- The province reported 55,381 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 10.7 per cent positivity rate.
- Cases reported in today's update include 40 from Grey-Bruce, 159 from Simcoe-Muskoka, 1,284 from Toronto, 479 from York Region, and 335 from Peel Region.
- Today's new cases include 95 newborns to four-year-olds, 417 kids ages five to 11 years old, 478 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 1,912 people between 20 and 39 years old, 1,118 people between 40 and 59 years old, 328 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 38 people over 80 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 661,563 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 623,142 recoveries and 10,133 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 4,490 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average seven-day incidence rate from Dec. 12 to Dec. 18 was 127.3 cases per 100,000 people, which increased 95.5 per cent over to the seven-day period starting on Dec. 6.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 126 new COVID cases in its report Dec. 21.
There are 1,384 active cases in the region.
Two people have been hospitalized since Monday's report for a total of 26 Simcoe-Muskoka residents currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 17,735 cases of COVID-19 with 16,065 of those cases recovered and 286 cases ending in death.
The seven-day average incidence rate in Simcoe-Muskoka for the week of Dec. 12 was 141.9 cases, which is up 48.9 per cent compared to the week of Dec. 6.
The seven-day average incidence rate in Grey-Bruce for the week of Dec. 12 was 92.5 cases, which is up 133 per cent compared to the week of Dec. 6.
