Public Health Ontario has reported another 583 COVID-19 cases in the province today.
The province's public health agency has also confirmed one more death related to COVID – an individual over the age of 80 years old.
Ontario has also reported another 111 school-related COVID cases, including 69 student cases. There have been 722 school-related cases confirmed since back-to-school and 541 of those cases were reported in the last 14 days. The cases are spread across 379 schools and there are two schools in the province still closed due to COVID.
Of the 583 cases reported today, 121 were reported by Ottawa Public Health, 173 by Toronto Public Health, 75 by York region, and 70 by Peel.
As has been the trend lately, about 60 per cent of the new cases reported today were individuals under the age of 40. However, there are currently 53 long-term care homes in active COVID-19 outbreak with 154 resident cases and 165 staff cases.
Since the last report, provincial public health labs have processed 43,277 COVID tests and there are 54,413 still awaiting results.
As of yesterday, the per cent positivity rate (the number of positive results compared to the number of tests processed) is 1.8 per cent, which has increased from 1.2 per cent since late last week.
Since January, the province has confirmed, through lab testing, 55,945 cases of COVID-19 and has reported 47,613 recoveries and 2,988 cases ending in death.
There are 5,344 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, including 195 people who have been hospitalized with the coronavirus. There are 43 COVID patients in intensive care units and 28 of them are on ventilators.
The breakdown for the Northern Ontario health units is:
- Algoma Public Health: 36 cases, rate of 31.5 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 37 cases. There are three known active cases.
- North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 38 cases, rate of 29.3 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 40 cases. There are no known active cases.
- Porcupine Health Unit: 85, rate of 101.9 per 100,000 population. There are three known active cases.
- Public Health Sudbury and Districts: 108 cases, rate of 54.3 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 109 cases. There are four known active cases.
- Timiskaming Health Unit: 19 cases, rate of 58.1 per 100,000. The health unit has reported 17 cases. There are no known active cases.
- Northwestern Health Unit: 66 cases, rate of 75.3 per 100,000. There are 14 known active cases.
- Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 107 cases, rate of 71.4 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.
The Ontario rate of infection is 376.4.