Ontario reports 653 COVID-19 cases as 7-day average continues to drop
Ontario reported 653 COVID-19 instances on Sunday, bringing the whole variety of instances within the province to 583,928.
Well being Minister Christine Elliott mentioned of the brand new instances, 499 contain people who find themselves not totally vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination standing, whereas 154 are totally vaccinated people.
For comparability, final Sunday 715 instances had been reported, that means the seven-day common continues to drop.
Six extra deaths had been additionally introduced on Sept. 26, bringing the provincial virus-related demise toll to 9,704. Officers mentioned three of the six deaths occurred inside the previous month, whereas three occurred multiple month in the past and had been added due to a knowledge clean-up.
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A complete of 568,633 coronavirus instances are thought of resolved, which is up by 639.
Almost 31,100 extra assessments had been accomplished. Ontario has now administered a complete of 17,954,556 assessments and 11,512 stay below investigation.
The province indicated that the positivity charge for the final day was two per cent, which is up barely from Saturday’s report when it was 1.9 per cent, and down from final Sunday’s report, when it was 2.3 per cent.

Provincial figures confirmed there are 177 folks in intensive care attributable to COVID-19 (down by one), 127 of whom are on a ventilator (down by one).
As of 8 p.m. Saturday, 21,651,850 COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered in Ontario, marking a rise of 37,645. Of these, 13,412 had been first doses and 24,233 had been second doses.
In Ontario, 85.8 per cent of individuals aged 12-plus have obtained at the least one vaccine dose and greater than 80.2 per cent are totally vaccinated.
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