Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
With Ontario announcing the stay-at-home order will remain in effect until at least June 2, the province is reporting 2,759 new cases. Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 7 are reporting triple-digit increases and 16 are reporting double-digit increases. The seven-day average of daily cases has decreased to 2,731 and the proportion of active cases continues to decline.
Hospitalizations have decreased, with no change in the number of ICU patients and a small rise in the number of patients on ventilators. Ontario is reporting 31 deaths today, including 1 new death in a long-term care home.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 35 new cases to report (including 19 in Peterborough, 8 in Northumberland, 4 in Haliburton, 3 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 in Hastings Prince Edward) and an additional 29 cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region increasing by 6 to 264. See below for detailed information from each health unit in the region.
Most of the new cases reported today are in Toronto (774), Peel (602), York (258), Durham (147), Hamilton (113), Ottawa (110), and Halton (104).
There are double-digit increases reported today in Niagara (81), Middlesex-London (78), Waterloo (72), Simcoe Muskoka (65), Windsor-Essex (54), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (44), Brant (30), Lambton (28), Porcupine (24), Huron Perth (19), Eastern Ontario (18), Southwestern (16), Haldimand-Norfolk (15), Sudbury (12), Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (11), and Peterborough (10), with smaller increases in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (9), Renfrew (8), Northwestern (6), Algoma (6), North Bay Parry Sound (6), Hastings Prince Edward (6), Chatham-Kent (6), and Grey Bruce (6).
The remaining 3 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 1 health unit (Timiskaming) reporting no new cases at all.
Of today’s new cases, 60% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (1,125) among people ages 20-39 followed by 781 cases among people ages 40-59 and 538 cases among people 19 and under.
With 3,455 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.2% to at 92.5% — the 24th straight day the percentage of resolved cases has increased. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased by 0.7% to 5.7%, meaning that 57 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on May 12.
Ontario is reporting 31 new COVID-19 deaths today, including 1 new death in a long-term care home. Ontario has averaged 27 new daily deaths over the past week (no change from yesterday).
Hospitalizations have decreased by 41 to 1,632, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs remaining the same at 776 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators increasing by 9 to 568.
A total of 47,638 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation decreasing by 3,809 to 24,365.
A total of 6,629,363 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 137,697 from yesterday, and 407,600 people have been fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 5,342 from yesterday.
The number of fully vaccinated people represents 2.77% of Ontario’s population, an increase of 0.04% from yesterday, with fully and partially vaccinated people representing 45% of the total population, an increase of 0.96% from yesterday. An estimated 70-90% of the population must be immunized to achieve herd immunity.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 35 new cases to report, including 19 in Peterborough, 8 in Northumberland, 4 in Haliburton, 3 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 in Hastings Prince Edward.
There are 32 new regional cases of variants of concern, including 21 in Peterborough, 8 in Hastings Prince Edward, 2 in Northumberland, and 1 in Kawartha Lakes.
An additional 29 cases have been resolved, including 9 in Peterborough, 6 in Hastings Prince Edward, 8 in Kawartha Lakes, and 6 in Northumberland.
There are currently 264 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, an increase of 6 from yesterday, including 89 in Peterborough, 78 in Hastings Prince Edward (14 in Quinte West, 39 in Belleville, 2 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto, 5 in Prince Edward County, 10 in Central Hastings, and 8 in North Hastings), 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 33 in Northumberland, and 8 in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,345 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,239 resolved with 17 deaths), 804 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (705 resolved with 56 deaths), 863 in Northumberland County (814 resolved with 16 deaths), 114 in Haliburton County (105 resolved with 1 death), and 1,037 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (949 resolved with 10 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Northumberland on May 12.
The provincial data in this report is pulled from Ontario’s integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) at 4 p.m. the previous day, as well as from systems in Toronto, Ottawa, and Middlesex-London at 2 p.m. the previous day. Data from local health units is more current and is usually reflected in the provincial data the following day. There may be discrepancies between the Ontario data reported today (which is from yesterday) and the local health unit data reported today (which is from today).
Peterborough Public Health
Peterborough Public Health’s service area is the City and County of Peterborough and the Hiawatha and Curve Lake First Nations.
The health unit provides daily reports, including on weekends, excluding statutory holidays.
Confirmed positive: 1,345 (increase of 19)
Total variants of concern cases: 536 (increase of 21)
Active cases: 89 (increase of 10)
Close contacts: 285 (increase of 32)
Deaths: 17 (no change)
Resolved: 1,239 (increase of 9)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 60 (no change)*
ICU admissions (total to date): 13 (no change)
Total tests completed: Over 51,100 (increase of 100)
Outbreaks: Unidentified congregate living facility #3 in Peterborough, Sunshine Daycare in Peterborough, Unidentified home child care centre #1 in Peterborough County, Helping Hands Day Care in Peterborough County (no change)
Vaccine doses administered: 60,427 (increase of 4,018 as of May 7)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 4,421 (increase of 210 as of May 7)
*As of May 13, Peterborough Regional Health Centre is reporting 12 patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 (decrease of 1) and a total of 73 patients transferred from other areas as a result of a provincial directive (no change).
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit’s service area is the City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland County, and Haliburton County.
The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding Sundays and statutory holidays.
Confirmed positive: 1,781, including 804 in Kawartha Lakes, 863 in Northumberland, and 114 in Haliburton (increase of 15, including 3 in Kawartha Lakes, 8 in Northumberland, and 4 in Haliburton)*
Total variants of concern cases: 486, including 196 in Kawartha Lakes, 265 in Northumberland, and 25 in Haliburton (increase of 3, including 1 in Kawartha Lakes and 2 in Northumberland)
Active cases: 97, including 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 33 in Northumberland, and 8 in Haliburton (net increase of 1)
Probable cases: 6, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes and 1 in Northumberland (increase of 1 in Northumberland)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 65, including 33 in Kawartha Lakes, 29 in Northumberland, and 3 in Haliburton (no change)**
Deaths (including among probable cases): 73, including 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 16 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)
Resolved: 1,624, including 705 in Kawartha Lakes, 814 in Northumberland, and 105 in Haliburton (increase of 14, including 8 in Kawartha Lakes and 6 in Northumberland)
Tests completed: 186,871 (increase of 517)
Vaccine doses administered: 79,432 (increase of 7,067 as of May 10)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 4,462 (increase of 191 as of May 10)
Outbreaks: Staples and Swain Law Office in Lindsay, OPP Offender Transport Lindsay, Dairy Queen in Lindsay (no change)
*The health unit states that total counts and counts for individual counties may fluctuate from previously reported counts as cases are transferred to or from the health unit based on case investigation details and routine data cleaning.
**As of May 13, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 8 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (no change).
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health’s service area is Hastings County (including Bancroft) and Prince Edward County.
The health unit provides daily reports, including on weekends, excluding statutory holidays.
Confirmed positive: 1,037 (increase of 1)
Confirmed variants of concern cases: 405 (increase of 8)
Active cases: 78 (decrease of 5)
Deaths: 10 (no change)
Currently hospitalized: 17 (no change)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU: 7 (no change)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU on ventilator: 5 (no change)
Resolved: 949 (increase of 6)
Tests completed: 136,183 (increase of 5)
Vaccine doses administered: 69,983 (increase of 1,292)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 4,937 (increase of 192)
Outbreaks: Quinte 5 at QHC Belleville General Hospital, ICU of QHC Belleville General Hospital, Unidentified child care facility in Belleville, Unidentified workplace in Belleville, Unidentified workplace in Central Hastings, Community outbreak in Hastings Highlands in North Hastings (no change)
Province of Ontario
Confirmed positive: 502,171 (increase of 2,759)
COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) cases: 101,232 of B.1.1.7 UK variant (increase of 2,287); 574 of B.1.351 South Africa variant (increase of 6); 1,727 of P.1 Brazilian variant (increase of 44)
VOC R(t): 0.87 (decrease of 0.05 as May 8)*
7-day average of daily new cases: 2,731 (decrease of 95)
Positivity rate: 5.7% (decrease of 0.7%)
Resolved: 464,531 (increase of 3,455), 92.5% of all cases (increase of 0.2%)
Hospitalizations: 1,632 (decrease of 41)
Hospitalizations in ICU: 776 (no change)
Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 568 (increase of 9)
Deaths: 8,405 (increase of 31)
7-day average of daily new deaths: 27 (no change)
Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,937 (increase of 1)
Total tests completed: 14,651,044 (increase of 47,638)
Tests under investigation: 24,365 (decrease of 3,809)
Vaccination doses administered: 6,629,363 (increase of 137,697), 45.00% of Ontario’s population (increase of 0.93%)**
People fully vaccinated (two doses): 407,600 (increase of 5,342), 2.77% of Ontario’s population (increase of 0.04%)**
*R(t) is a virus’s effective reproduction number, which is the average number of new infections caused by a single infected individual at a specific time (t) in a partially immunized population. To successfully eliminate a disease from a population, R(t) needs to be less than 1.
**An estimated 70-90% of the population must be immunized to achieve herd immunity.
For more information about COVID-19 in Ontario, visit covid-19.ontario.ca.
