Ontario is reporting an additional 634 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases today, the results of another 10,214 tests completed.
This is the highest number of confirmed cases reported in a single day from the province, but it is also some of the highest amount of testing completed in a single day.
There have been a total of 12,879 cases of the virus confirmed through lab testing in the province, of those, 6,680 have recovered (51.9 per cent) and 713 have died (5.5 per cent).
According to the Ontario Public Health website, there have been 54 more deaths attributed to COVID-19 since yesterday’s report.
There are now 135 outbreaks at long-term care homes and 37 outbreaks at Ontario hospitals.
Ontario Public Health is reporting 1,922 cases in long-term care residents and 358 deaths attributed to COVID-19, but not all of those are included in the total death toll for Ontario as not all residents were confirmed positive for COVID-19 before they died. In fact, the province reported there were 63 deaths of residents in long-term care homes yesterday, which is higher than the total deaths reported for the province for yesterday.
The ministry of long-term care is reporting 2,189 lab-confirmed cases in long-term care residents and 516 deaths attributed to COVID-19. Data is self-reported by long-term care homes to the ministry. Ontario Public Health gathers its statistics from a public health database, and the website states their data may lag behind that of the ministry of long-term care.
About 10 per cent of the province’s lab-confirmed cases have been linked to travel history, 18 per cent to close contact, and 32.7 per cent to community transmission. The remaining 39 per cent lists transmission sources as pending.
There are now 887 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, and of those 233 are in intensive care units and 185 patients are on ventilators.
Yesterday, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported there have now been 218 confirmed cases in the region, but that’s not including six previously reported cases that have now left the area.
Of the 218 cases listed on the health unit website, 109 people have recovered, 15 people have died, and 12 people are hospitalized. Seven long-term care residents have died during a COVID-19 outbreak at Bradford Valley Care Community, and there are now outbreaks at two Barrie long-term care facilities. In both outbreaks, the health unit has confirmed one staff member tested positive for the virus.
In the region, there have been 77 cases attributed to community transmission, 51 to close contact, and 52 to travel.
The case rate (including lab-confirmed cases only) for Simcoe Muskoka region is 36.7 cases per 100,000 population. The provincial average is 86.6 cases per 100,000 population.
