Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
With the Ontario government confirming the stay-at-home order will expire on Wednesday (June 2), the province is reporting 699 new cases today — the lowest daily increase since October 17 when 658 cases were reported.
With the stay-at-home order expiring, people are now free to travel within the province for non-essential purposes including going to their cottages. However, all other current health restrictions will remain in effect until the province begins step one of its reopening plan on June 14. This includes limiting indoor gatherings to household members only and outdoor gatherings to a maximum of five people. Essential retail will remain limited to 25 per cent capacity, and non-essential retail is limited to curbside pickup and delivery only. For a full list of restrictions in place before step one, visit ontario.ca/page/reopening-ontario.
For the third day in a row, only Toronto and Peel are reporting triple-digit increases, and almost half of Ontario’s 34 health units are reporting 5 or fewer cases. The seven-day average of daily cases has decreased to 1,030 and the proportion of active cases has decreased for the 43rd straight day.
Hospitalizations have increased, although the increase may be due to underreporting by more than 10% of hospitals yesterday. There has been a large decrease in ICU admissions and a smaller increase in patients on ventilators. Ontario is reporting 9 new deaths, with no new deaths in long-term care homes.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 6 new cases to report (including 4 in Peterborough and 2 in Kawartha Lakes) and an additional 44 cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region falling by 39 to 151. Active cases have fallen in Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Hastings Prince Edward, with an increase of 1 active case in Peterborough. Haliburton has no active cases.
Most of the new cases reported today are in Toronto (207) and Peel (144).
There are double-digit increases reported today in York (52), Durham (50), Hamilton (44), Ottawa (39), Waterloo (25), Windsor-Essex (19), Simcoe Muskoka (18), Halton (17), Niagara (16), Porcupine (14), Middlesex-London (11), and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (10), with a smaller increase in Brant (6).
The remaining 19 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 7 health units reporting no new cases at all.
Of today’s new cases, 63% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (281) among people ages 20-39 followed by 186 cases among people ages 40-59 and 159 cases among people 19 and under.
With 1,568 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.2% to at 96.2% — the 43rd straight day the percentage of resolved cases has increased. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased by 0.7% to 3.6%, meaning that 36 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on May 31.
Ontario is reporting 9 new COVID-19 deaths today, with no new deaths in long-term care homes. The seven-day average of daily deaths has decreased by 3 from yesterday to 16.
Hospitalizations have increased by 73 from yesterday to 804, but this increase may be due to underreporting by more than 10% of hospitals yesterday. The number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs has decreased by 34 to 583 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators has increased by 5 to 387.
A total of 20,262 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 8,403 to 15,490.
A total of 9,202,220 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 120,195 from yesterday, and 739,722 people have been fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 32,890 from yesterday.
The number of fully vaccinated people represents 5.02% of Ontario’s population, an increase of 0.22% from yesterday, with fully and partially vaccinated people representing 62.46% of the total population, an increase of 0.82% from yesterday. An estimated 70-90% of the population must be immunized to achieve herd immunity.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 6 new cases to report, including 4 in Peterborough and 2 in Kawartha Lakes. There are no new cases in Hastings Prince Edward, Northumberland, or Haliburton.
There are 10 new regional cases of variants of concern, including 4 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Northumberland, and 3 in Peterborough.
An additional 44 cases have been resolved, including 25 in Kawartha Lakes, 9 in Hastings Prince Edward, 6 in Northumberland, and 4 in Peterborough.
There are currently 151 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, a decrease of 39 since yesterday, including 74 in Kawartha Lakes, 48 in Peterborough, 16 in Hastings Prince Edward (2 in Quinte West, 5 in Belleville, 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto, 3 in Prince Edward County, 1 in Central Hastings, and 4 in North Hastings), and 13 in Northumberland. There are no active cases in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,504 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,435 resolved with 21 deaths), 1,014 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (897 resolved with 56 deaths), 922 in Northumberland County (892 resolved with 17 deaths), 118 in Haliburton County (117 resolved with 1 death), and 1,121 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,094 resolved with 11 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Peterborough on May 30.
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: 1,504 (increase of 5)*
Total variants of concern cases: 686 (increase of 3)
Active cases: 48 (increase of 1)
Close contacts: 141 (decrease of 8)
Deaths: 21 (no change)
Resolved: 1,435 (increase of 4)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 68 (no change)**
ICU admissions (total to date): 15 (no change)
Total tests completed: Over 52,500 (no change)
Total vaccine doses administered (residents and non-residents): 79,150 (increase of 9,161 as of May 27)
Number of residents who have received first dose: 72,120 (increase of 7,921 as of May 27)
Number of residents fully vaccinated: 6,659 (increase of 1,807 as of May 20)
Outbreaks: Unidentified workplace #10 in Peterborough County, Fairhaven long-term care home in Peterborough, Unidentified workplace #11 in Peterborough, Riverview Manor long-term care home in Peterborough (no change)
*The health unit is reporting 4 new cases in the last 24 hours. The total case count has increased by 5 because 1 case has been added to a previous day.
**As of June 1, Peterborough Regional Health Centre is reporting 6 patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 (increase of 1) and a total of 76 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: 2,054, including 1,014 in Kawartha Lakes, 922 in Northumberland, and 118 in Haliburton (increase of 2 in Kawartha Lakes)*
Total variants of concern cases: 730, including 372 in Kawartha Lakes, 325 in Northumberland, and 33 in Haliburton (increase of 7, including 4 in Kawartha Lakes and 3 in Northumberland)
Active cases: 87, including 74 in Kawartha Lakes, 13 in Northumberland, and 0 in Haliburton (decrease of 29, includng 23 in Kawartha Lakes and 6 in Northumberland)
Probable cases: None (decrease of 1 in Kawartha Lakes)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 74, including 40 in Kawartha Lakes, 31 in Northumberland, and 3 in Haliburton (no change)**
Deaths (including among probable cases): 74, including 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 17 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)
Resolved: 1,906, including 897 in Kawartha Lakes, 892 in Northumberland, and 117 in Haliburton (increase of 31, including 25 in Kawartha Lakes and 6 in Northumberland)
Tests completed: 194,337 (increase of 541)
Vaccine doses administered to residents: 104,784 (increase of 8,863 as of May 31)
Number of residents fully vaccinated: 11,108 (increase of 3,773 as of May 31)
Outbreaks: Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Campbellford Farm Supply LTD, Medi-Share Inc. 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 June 1, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 2 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (increase of 1).
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: 1,121 (decrease of 2)
Confirmed variants of concern cases: 489 (decrease of 1)
Active cases: 16 (decrease of 11)
Deaths: 11 (no change)
Currently hospitalized: 5 (decrease of 1)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU: 2 (decrease of 1)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU on ventilator: 1 (no change)
Resolved: 1,094 (increase of 9)
Tests completed: 145,480 (increase of 20)
Vaccine doses administered: 97,104 (increase of 2,077)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 7,924 (increase of 174)
Outbreaks: None (no change)
Province of Ontario
Confirmed positive: 532,158 (increase of 699)
COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) cases: 126,707 of B.1.1.7 UK variant (increase of 762); 949 of B.1.351 South Africa variant (increase of 1); 2,867 of P.1 Brazilian variant (increase of 45)
VOC R(t): 0.72 (decrease of 0.02 as of May 24)*
7-day average of daily new cases: 1,030 (decrease of 48)
Positivity rate: 3.6% (increase of 0.7%)
Resolved: 511,703 (increase of 1,568), 96.2% of all cases (increase of 0.2%)
Hospitalizations: 804 (increase of 73)
Hospitalizations in ICU: 583 (decrease of 34)
Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 387 (increase of 5)
Deaths: 8,766 (increase of 9)
7-day average of daily new deaths: 16 (decrease of 3)
Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,950 (no change)
Total tests completed: 15,242,915 (increase of 20,262)
Tests under investigation: 15,490 (increase of 8,403)
Vaccination doses administered: 9,202,220 (increase of 120,195), 62.46% of Ontario’s total population (increase of 0.82%)**
People fully vaccinated (two doses): 739,722 (increase of 32,890), 5.02% of Ontario’s total population (increase of 0.22%)**
*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.
