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Ontario reports 613 new COVID-19 cases, 6 more deaths

Ontario is reporting 613 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, as cases continue to rise weekly. The total number of provincial cases is now 612,931.

By comparison, last Tuesday saw 481 new cases and the previous Tuesday 441 cases. All three Tuesdays had similar test volumes in the 20,000 range.

Of the 613 new cases recorded, the data shows that 288 are unvaccinated, 30 are partially vaccinated, 266 are fully vaccinated and 29 have unknown vaccination status.

According to Tuesday’s report, 72 cases were recorded in Toronto, 73 in Simcoe Muskoka, 47 in York, 40 in Waterloo and 35 in Peel. All other local public health units reported fewer than 35 new cases in the provincial report.

The death toll in the province rose to 9,974 as six more deaths were reported.

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Vaccinations, recovery, testing, 7 days average in Ontario

As of 8:00 p.m. Monday, 11,096 vaccines (4,188 for the first dose and 6,908 for the second) had been administered in the last day.

More than 11.2 million people were fully immunized with two doses, representing 86% of the eligible population (12 years of age and older). The first dose coverage rate was 89%.

Meanwhile, 597,470 Ontario residents are reported to have recovered from COVID-19, representing about 97% of known cases. Resolved cases increased by 717 cases compared to the previous day.

Active cases in Ontario now stand at 5,487 – down from the day before at 5,597, but up from November 16 when it was at 4,814. At the height of the second coronavirus spike in January, active cases reached just above 30,000. In the third wave in April, active cases topped 43,000.

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The seven-day average has now hit 675, up from last week when it was 579. A month ago, the seven-day average was around 400.

The government said 19,859 tests had been processed in the previous 24 hours. There are 14,591 tests currently under investigation.

The test positivity reached 3.1%. Last week, the test’s positivity was 2.5%.

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Hospitalization in Ontario

Ontario reports 282 people in general hospital wards with COVID-19 (up 146 from the day before) with 134 patients in the intensive care unit (up one) and 111 patients in the intensive care unit with ventilator (unchanged).

During the third peak, the worst of the hospitalizations, the province had as many as 900 patients in ICUs with COVID and nearly 2,400 patients in general hospitals.

For COVID-19 ward general hospitals, 95 were unvaccinated, 9 partially vaccinated, and 66 fully vaccinated. For those in the ICU, 60 were unvaccinated while 2 were partially vaccinated and 16 were fully vaccinated.

Provincial officials note that this new dataset with immunization status for hospital admissions will grow and improve over time as more information is gathered. There may also be differences due to how and when information is collected for both.

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