Ontario hits 10,000 COVID-related deaths since the start of the pandemic

Ontario is reporting three new COVID-19-related deaths on Tuesday as the death toll in the province hits the 10,000 mark since the start of the pandemic.

During a 20-month global pandemic officially declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020, the province recorded its first virus-related death on March 17, 2020. 2020 – a 77-year-old man from Barrie, Ont.

Then, the first 1,000 deaths were recorded over the next six weeks on April 30, 2020. Ontario hit 5,000 deaths in the second wave on January 11, as another thousand deaths were recorded. recorded just two and a half weeks later.

Ontario had just over 9,000 deaths as of June 19 as it emerged after a devastating third wave while more people are getting vaccinated as supplies grow.

It took another 5 months for the most recent 1,000 deaths to reach the 10,000 deaths mark.

Ontario has the second highest death toll in Canada, after Quebec, which has recorded more than 11,500 COVID deaths to date.

Meanwhile, 687 new COVID-19 cases were also reported on Tuesday. The total number of provincial cases is now 618,490.

By comparison, last Tuesday saw 613 new cases and the previous Tuesday 481. All three Tuesdays had a similar number of tests in the 20,000 range.

Of the 687 new cases recorded, 310 were unvaccinated, 19 partially vaccinated, 308 fully vaccinated, and 50 with unknown vaccination status.

Vaccinations, recovery, testing, 7 days average in Ontario

As of 8 p.m. Monday, 27,129 vaccines (21,456 for the first dose and 5,673 for the second) had been administered in the last day.

There are more than 11.2 million people fully vaccinated with two doses, accounting for 86.4% of the population aged 12 and over. The first dose coverage rate was 89.9%.

There have been 601,550 Ontario residents reported to have recovered from COVID-19, which is about 97% of known cases. Resolved cases increased by 560 from the previous day.

Active cases in Ontario now stand at 6,940 – up from the previous day at 6,816 and up from November 23 when it was at 5,487. At the height of the second coronavirus spike in January, active cases were just above 30,000. In the third wave in April, active cases topped 43,000.

The seven-day average has now hit 794, up from last week when it was 675. A month ago, the seven-day average was around 350.

The government said 21476 tests were processed in the previous 24 hours. There are 15,824 tests currently under investigation.

The test positivity reached 3%. Last week, the test’s positivity was 3.1%.

More will come.

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