Public Health Ontario has reported 508 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (Nov. 6).
Today's update also includes 370 new recoveries and three deaths in the last month.
The Nov. 6 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- Of the new cases reported today, 253 were unvaccinated people, 15 were partially vaccinated, 218 were fully vaccinated, and 22 are listed as vaccination status unknown (missing health card information).
- 3,530 active cases, up from 3,395 yesterday.
- 203 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 225 yesterday.
- There are 130 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (19 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 82 patients on ventilators (15 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 30,145 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 14,173 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 19 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 146,511 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,503 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 5,231 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 21,452 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 59,749 cases have screened positive with a mutation detected, but the lineage for the variant strain not yet detected.
- According to Public Health Ontario, there are delays between specimen collection and the testing required to confirm a variant of concern. As such, the reports can change and can differ from past case counts publicly reported.
Vaccines
- There were 15,901 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 16,588 on Nov. 4.
- 22,585,340 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 11,063,495 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 602,595 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 589,166 recoveries and 9,896 deaths, 4,022 of those in long-term care homes.