Public Health Ontario reported 531 new COVID cases in today's update (Aug. 19).
Today's update noted 338 recoveries and 17 deaths, but 15 of the deaths occurred more than two months ago.
There have been 20 new hospitalizations since yesterday's report. Five people have been admitted to intensive care units with COVID-19.
The Aug. 19 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- Among today's cases were 203 unvaccinated people, 49 partially vaccinated people, and 79 fully vaccinated people.
- 4,243 active, lab-confirmed cases, up from 34,067 yesterday.
- 176 COVID-positive people are currently hospitalized in Ontario.
- Among the COVID-19 patients hospitalized but not in the ICU are 61 unvaccinated people, seven partially vaccinated, and 14 fully vaccinated.
- ICU case data was not available from the province today.
- 9,670,921 Ontarians have been fully vaccinated.
- The province reported 26,213 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 2.4 per cent positivity rate.
- There are 13,142 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 16.9 million tests to date.
- Of the new cases reported today, 116 are from Toronto, 63 cases are from Peel, 25 are from Simcoe-Muskoka, three are from Grey-Bruce, and 62 are from York Region.
- Today's cases include 71 individuals under 12 years old, 53 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 261 people between 20 and 39 years old, 106 people between 40 and 59 years old, 33 people between 60 and 79 years old, and five people over 79 years old.
*The vaccination status breakdown may not include all new cases because of missing health card information.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 557,451 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 543,760 recoveries and 9,448 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 3,783.4 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average weekly incidence rate is 22.3 cases per 100,000 people, which is up by 42.9 per cent from the week of Aug. 3.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
Simcoe-Muskoka
Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 23 new COVID cases.
There are currently 125 active cases in the region.
There are four people from Simcoe County hospitalized with COVID-19-related illnesses, which includes two new hospitalizations this week.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 12,652 cases of COVID-19 with 12,182 of those cases recovered and 255 cases ending in death.
Last week, the case incidence rate in Simcoe-Muskoka was 17.4 cases per 100,000 people over seven days, which is up by 77.6 per cent compared to the week of Aug. 3
