Another 15 COVID-19 cases reported in Waterloo Region as active case count falls to 106
Waterloo Public Well being reported one other 15 constructive checks for the coronavirus on Friday, lifting the overall variety of COVID-19 instances within the space to 19,890.
This drops the rolling seven-day common variety of new every day instances all the way down to 12 and continues to fall. That quantity stood at 19.9 only a week in the past.
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There was one COVID-19-related dying reported this month, on Oct. 3, because the dying toll stays at 300.
One other 20 individuals have been additionally cleared of the virus, lifting the overall variety of resolved instances within the area to 19,481.
The world is all the way down to 106 lively COVID-19 instances, the bottom complete that has been introduced this yr.
Nonetheless, there are at present 9 individuals in space hospitals affected by COVID-19 together with three who’re in intensive care.

The area nonetheless has six lively COVID-19 outbreaks, unchanged from Thursday, with 4 of these instances linked to native faculties whereas a fifth is linked to a daycare.
On the flip facet, the variety of COVID-19 vaccinations within the space continues to decrease as extra individuals are vaccinated.
Waterloo Public Well being introduced that there have now been 882,280 vaccinations within the space, which is 984 greater than it reported a day earlier.
It additionally reported that 435,698 residents are actually totally vaccinated, which is 645 greater than was introduced on Thursday.
Because of this 73.99 per cent of space residents are actually totally vaccinated, a quantity that climbs to 85.92 per cent once you low cost those that are ineligible to be vaccinated.
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Ontario experiences 496 new COVID-19 instances, 2 deaths
Ontario reported 496 new COVID-19 instances on Friday, bringing the provincial case complete to 593,933.
Of the 496 new instances recorded, the information confirmed 280 individuals have been unvaccinated, 20 have been partially vaccinated, 162 have been totally vaccinated and for 34 individuals the vaccination standing was unknown.
Based on Friday’s report, 74 instances have been recorded in Toronto, 60 in Peel Area, 40 in Ottawa and in Windsor-Essex.
All different native public well being models reported fewer than 30 new instances within the provincial replace.
The dying toll within the province has risen to 9,809 as two extra deaths have been recorded.
–With information from International Information’ Gabby Rodrigues
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