Public Health Ontario is reporting 704 new COVID-19 cases, 607 recoveries, and four deaths this morning.
According to the province's epidemiological summary today, the four deaths include two people between 60 and 79 years old and two people over the age of 80 years old. None of the deaths reported today were identified as residents of long-term care homes.
There are 6,047 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. The province reported 26 more hospitalizations (two in intensive care) since yesterday's report. There are at least 252 patients hospitalized with the coronavirus and 69 COVID patients in intensive care, 40 of which are on ventilators. Some hospitals (30) do not update COVID patient numbers on the weekend, so any corrections to the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus will be included in tomorrow's update.
Fifty-four per cent of the cases reported today are individuals under the age of 40. Based on a breakdown of the new cases provided by Public Health Ontario, 244 are from Toronto, 168 are from Peel, 103 are from York Region, and 51 are from Ottawa.
The province confirmed 74 more school-related cases since the last report on Friday, Oct. 16. The cases include 48 student cases, 10 staff cases, and 16 unidentified cases. There have been 749 school-related cases reported in the last two weeks and a cumulative total of 1,312 school-related cases spread across 483 schools, which is 10 per cent of all schools in Ontario. There are four schools closed.
Public Health Ontario confirmed 10 cases of COVID at child care centres and homes, six of which are child cases. Three centres and 10 homes have closed because of COVID-19 cases since Friday. There have been 302 child-care cases confirmed to-date by the province.
The province reported 31,864 more COVID tests have been processed since Sunday's report, and another 16,303 COVID tests are awaiting results.
To date, Public Health Ontario has reported 65,075 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 55,978 of those cases now resolved and 3,050 cases ending in death.
The average incidence rate of COVID-19 in Ontario is 437.8 cases per 100,000 people.
The breakdown for the Northern Ontario health units, at the time of today’s provincial update, is:
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Algoma Public Health: 40 cases, rate of 35 per 100,000 population. There is one known active case.
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North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 43 cases, rate of 33.1 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 45 cases. There are four known active cases.
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Porcupine Health Unit: 91, rate of 109.1 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 90 cases. There are four known active cases.
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Public Health Sudbury and Districts: 112 cases, rate of 56.3 per 100,000 population. There are two known active cases.
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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.
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Northwestern Health Unit: 69 cases, rate of 78.7 per 100,000. There is one known active case.
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Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 109 cases, rate of 72.7 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.
The Ontario rate of infection is 437.8.