Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 744 new cases today, the sixth straight day of increases under 1,000. For the seventh day in a row, only Toronto and Peel are reporting triple-digit increases. The seven-day average of daily cases has decreased to 844, and the proportion of active cases has declined for the 47th straight day.
There has been a double-digit decrease in hospitalizations, with a smaller decrease in ICU admissions and a small increase of patients on ventilators. Ontario is reporting 24 new deaths, including 3 new deaths in long-term care homes.
With over 9.8 million vaccine doses administered, almost 67% of Ontario’s total population has received at least a single dose, with a record number of doses administered yesterday for the second day in a row. There has also been a record increase of second doses administered for the fourth day in a row, with over 960,000 people (more than 6.5% of the total population) now fully vaccinated.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 11 new cases to report (including 6 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Peterborough, and 2 in Northumberland). There has been 1 new COVID-related death in Kawartha Lakes, the municipality’s 57th death.
An additional 42 cases have been resolved, decreasing the net number of active cases across the region by 16 to 101. Active cases have fallen in Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, and Hastings Prince Edward, have increased by 1 in Northumberland, and remain unchanged in Haliburton. See below for details from each individual health unit in the region.
Most of the new cases reported today are in Toronto (181) and Peel (123).
There are double-digit increases reported today in Hamilton (61), Waterloo (51), Porcupine (48), York (48), Durham (31), Ottawa (29), Windsor-Essex (21), Thunder Bay (20), Simcoe Muskoka (18), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (16), Brant (13), Grey Bruce (12), Middlesex-London (11), Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (10), Lambton (10), and Halton (10), with a smaller increase in Peterborough (6).
The remaining 15 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 5 health units reporting no new cases at all.
Of today’s new cases, 64% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (304) among people ages 20-39, followed by 184 cases among people ages 40-59 and 172 cases among people 19 and under.
With 1,242 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.1% to at 96.7% — the 47th straight day the percentage of resolved cases has increased. The average positivity rate across Ontario has increased by 0.3% to 3.1%, meaning that 31 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on June 4.
Ontario is reporting 24 new COVID-19 deaths today, including 3 new deaths in long-term care homes. The seven-day average of daily deaths has increased by 1 to 17.
Hospitalizations have decreased by 62 from yesterday to 625, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs decreasing by 6 to 516 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators increasing by 5 to 362.
A total of 27,819 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation decreasing by 1,787 to 12,320.
A total of 9,834,182 doses of vaccine have now been administered, a record increase of 172,855 from yesterday, and 963,257 people have been fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, a record increase of 67,192 from yesterday.
The number of fully vaccinated people represents 6.54% of Ontario’s population, an increase of 0.46% from yesterday, with fully and partially vaccinated people representing 66.75% of the total population, an increase of 1.17% from yesterday. An estimated 70-90% of the population must be immunized to achieve herd immunity.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 11 new cases to report, including 6 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Peterborough, and 2 in Northumberland. There are no new cases in Hastings Prince Edward or Haliburton. An outbreak at LCBO Port Hope was declared on June 4.
There has been 1 new COVID-related death in Kawartha Lakes, the municipality’s 57th death, and 1 new hospitalization in Peterborough.
There are 17 new regional cases of variants of concern, including 14 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland, 1 in Haliburton, and 1 in Peterborough.
An additional 42 cases have been resolved, including 32 in Kawartha Lakes, 6 in Peterborough, 2 in Northumberland, and 2 in Hastings Prince Edward. An outbreak at Medi-Share Inc. in Lindsay has been declared resolved.
There are currently 101 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, a decrease of 16 since yesterday, including 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 32 in Peterborough, 10 in Northumberland, 2 in Hastings Prince Edward (2 in Belleville), and 1 in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,522 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,469 resolved with 21 deaths), 1,049 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (949 resolved with 57 deaths), 926 in Northumberland County (899 resolved with 17 deaths), 119 in Haliburton County (117 resolved with 1 death), and 1,121 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,108 resolved with 11 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Kawartha Lakes on June 5.
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: 1,522 (increase of 3)
Total variants of concern cases: 697 (increase of 1)
Active cases: 32 (decrease of 3)
Close contacts: 92 (decrease of 9)
Deaths: 21 (no change)
Resolved: 1,469 (increase of 6)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 69 (increase of 1)*
ICU admissions (total to date): 15 (no change)
Total tests completed: Over 52,900 (increase of 100)
Total vaccine doses administered (residents and non-residents): 90,716 (increase of 11,566 as of June 3)
Number of residents who have received first dose: 81,390 (increase of 9,270 as of June 3)
Number of residents fully vaccinated: 9,388 (increase of 2,729 as of June 3)
Outbreaks: Fairhaven long-term care home in Peterborough, Unidentified workplace #11 in Peterborough, Riverview Manor long-term care home in Peterborough (no change)
*As of June 4, Peterborough Regional Health Centre is reporting 3 patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 (decrease 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: 2,094, including 1,049 in Kawartha Lakes, 926 in Northumberland, and 119 in Haliburton (increase of 8, including 6 in Kawartha Lakes and 2 in Northumberland)*
Total variants of concern cases: 750, including 389 in Kawartha Lakes, 327 in Northumberland, and 34 in Haliburton (increase of 16, including 14 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton)
Active cases: 67, including 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 10 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (net decrease of 11, including a decrease of 12 in Kawartha Lakes and an increase of 1 in Northumberland)
Probable cases: 1, in Kawartha Lakes (decrease of 1 in Kawartha Lakes)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 76, including 42 in Kawartha Lakes, 31 in Northumberland, and 3 in Haliburton (no change)**
Deaths (including among probable cases): 75, including 57 in Kawartha Lakes, 17 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (increase of 1 in Kawartha Lakes)
Resolved: 1,965, including 949 in Kawartha Lakes, 899 in Northumberland, and 117 in Haliburton (increase of 34, including 32 in Kawartha Lakes and 2 in Northumberland)
Tests completed: 196,484 (increase of 972)
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, LCBO Port Hope (no net 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 4, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports no patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (no change).
***An outbreak at Medi-Share Inc. in Lindsay has been declared resolved. An outbreak at LCBO Port Hope was declared on June 4.
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 (no change)
Confirmed variants of concern cases: 490 (no change)
Active cases: 2 (decrease of 2)
Deaths: 11 (no change)
Currently hospitalized: 5 (no change)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU: 2 (no change)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU on ventilator: 1 (no change)
Resolved: 1,108 (increase of 2)
Tests completed: 145,490 (no change)
Vaccine doses administered: 107,322 (increase of 3,071)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 10,711 (increase of 1,269)
Outbreaks: None (no change)
Province of Ontario
Confirmed positive: 535,419 (increase of 744)
COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) cases: 131,123 of B.1.1.7 Alpha variant (increase of 1,316); 1,035 of B.1.351 Beta variant (increase of 63); 3,263 of P.1 Gamma variant (increase of 296)
VOC R(t): 0.75 (increase of 0.03 as of June 3)*
7-day average of daily new cases: 844 (decrease of 45)
Positivity rate: 3.1% (increase of 0.3%)
Resolved: 517,638 (increase of 1,242), 96.7% of all cases (increase of 0.1%)
Hospitalizations: 625 (decrease of 62)
Hospitalizations in ICU: 516 (decrease of 6)
Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 362 (increase of 5)
Deaths: 8,844 (increase of 24)
7-day average of daily new deaths: 17 (increase of 1)
Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,956 (increase of 3)
Total tests completed: 15,369,037 (increase of 27,819)
Tests under investigation: 12,320 (decrease of 1,787)
Vaccination doses administered: 9,834,182 (increase of 172,855), 66.75% of Ontario’s total population (increase of 1.17%)**
People fully vaccinated (two doses): 963,257 (increase of 67,192), 6.54% of Ontario’s total population (increase of 0.46%)**
*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.
