Public Health Ontario has reported 847 new cases of COVID-19 today (Feb. 17).
Today's report includes 10 new deaths, four were residents at long-term care homes.
Of the deaths reported today, two were individuals between 40 and 59 years old, three were between 60 and 79 years old, and five were over the age of 80.
The province has reported 51 new hospitalizations since yesterday, and three new admissions of COVID-19 patients to intensive care units.
The Feb. 17 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 1,456 new recoveries
- 10,985 active cases, which is down from 11,604 yesterday
- 719 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 742 reported yesterday.
- There are 298 COVID patients in intensive care units (up from 292) and 211 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 201 yesterday).
- The province reported 33,977 tests were processed yesterday resulting in a three per cent positivity rate.
- Another 33,730 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 10.4 million tests have been completed.
- Of the 847 new cases reported today, 257 are from Toronto, 170 cases are from Peel, 131 are from York Region, and 26 are from Simcoe-Muskoka
- There are 156 active outbreaks at long-term care homes, 92 at retirement homes and 47 at hospitals.
- Of the cases reported today there are 134 people under 19 years old, 314 people between 20 and 39 years old, 255 people between 40 and 59 years old, 113 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 33 people over the age of 80.
Variant of concern
- The province has reported 228 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7).
- The province has reported six cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant).
- The province has reported 1 case of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil.
- According to Public Health Ontario, there are delays between specimen collection and the testing required to confirm a variant of concern. As such, the reports can change and can differ from past case counts publicly reported.
Vaccine update for Feb. 17:
- There were 9,107 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered on Feb 16, which is up from 5,053 administered on Feb. 15.
- As of 8 p.m. on Feb. 16, the province reported 489,484 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered.
- In total, 195,366 people have been fully vaccinated, having received two doses of vaccine, which are to be given a few weeks apart.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 288,583 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 270,869 recoveries and 6,729 deaths, of which 3,807 were individuals living in long-term care homes.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,941.4 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 52.4 cases per 100,000 people from Feb. 7 to Feb. 13, which is a decrease of 16.8 per cent compared to Feb. 1 to Feb. 7 when the average weekly incidence rate was 63 cases per 100,000 people.
Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 123 new cases of COVID-19 in the region, which includes all cases reported to the health unit since Friday, Feb. 12.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 5,993 cases of COVID-19 with 5,106 of those cases recovered and 179 cases ending in death.
According to the health unit, 153 local cases have tested positive for the COVID-19 variant of concern UK B.1.1.7 and an additional 131 cases have screened positive (awaiting confirmatory testing).
The weekly incidence rate for Simcoe Muskoka is about 34 cases per 100,000 people, which is down by 26 per cent from 47 cases per 100,000 a week ago.
For the latest breakdown of cases in the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, click here.
