Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 663 new cases today, the seventh straight day of increases under 1,000. For the eighth day in a row, only Toronto and Peel are reporting triple-digit increases, and half of Ontario’s 34 health units are reporting 5 or fewer cases. The seven-day average of daily cases has decreased to 791, and the proportion of active cases has declined for the 48th straight day.
There has been a double-digit decrease in hospitalizations, although this number excludes more than 10% of hospitals so actual hospitalizations may be higher. There’s been a small decrease of ICU patients and a larger decrease in ventilated patients. Ontario is reporting 10 new deaths, with no new deaths in long-term care homes.
With almost 10 million vaccine doses administered, around 68% of Ontario’s total population has received at least a single dose. There has also been a record increase of second doses administered for the fifth day in a row, with over 1 million people (7% of the total population) now fully vaccinated.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 2 new cases to report (in Peterborough) and an additional 8 cases resolved. Numbers for Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton are not available as the health unit does not issue updates on Sundays. Active cases have decreased by 5 to 96, with Hastings Prince Edward now having no active cases. See below for details from each individual health unit in the region.
Most of the new cases reported today are in Toronto (115) and Peel (112).
There are double-digit increases reported today in Niagara (59), York (47), Ottawa (40), Waterloo (34), Durham (33), Hamilton (33), Porcupine (32), Halton (31), Simcoe Muskoka (27), Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (18), Windsor-Essex (16), Middlesex-London (14), and Brant (12), with smaller increases in Thunder Bay (8) and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (6).
The remaining 17 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 7 health units reporting no new cases at all.
Of today’s new cases, 62% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (229) among people ages 20-39, followed by 185 cases among people 19 and under and 168 cases among people ages 40-59.
With 1,222 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.1% to at 96.8% — the 48th straight day the percentage of resolved cases has increased. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased by 0.3% to 2.8%, meaning that 28 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on June 5.
Ontario is reporting 10 new COVID-19 deaths today, with no new deaths in long-term care homes. The seven-day average of daily deaths has decreased by 1 to 16.
Hospitalizations have decreased by 80 from yesterday to 545, although more than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the daily bed census so the actual number of hospitalizations may be higher. The number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs has decreased by 6 to 510 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators has decreased by 18 to 344.
A total of 22,635 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation decreasing by 5,271 to 7,049.
A total of 9,992,575 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 158,393 from yesterday, and 1,031,520 people have been fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, a record increase of 68,263 from yesterday.
The number of fully vaccinated people represents 7% of Ontario’s population, an increase of 0.46% from yesterday, with fully and partially vaccinated people representing 67.82% of the total population, an increase of 1.08% from yesterday. An estimated 70-90% of the population must be immunized to achieve herd immunity.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 2 new cases to report in Peterborough. Hastings Prince Edward, which saw active cases in the triple digits in April, has reported no new cases since May 31 and has resolved its last two active cases.
Numbers for Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton are not available as the health unit does not issue updates on Sundays. Numbers for June 6 will be included in the June 7 update.
There are 6 new regional cases of variants of concern in Peterborough.
There has been 1 new COVID-related hospitalization in Peterborough.
An additional 8 cases have been resolved, including 6 in Peterborough and 2 in Hastings Prince Edward.
There are currently 96 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, a decrease of 5 since yesterday, including 56 in Kawartha Lakes, 29 in Peterborough, 10 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton. There are no active cases in Hastings Prince Edward.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,525 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,476 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 (1,110 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: 1,525 (increase of 3)*
Total variants of concern cases: 703 (increase of 6)
Active cases: 29 (decrease of 3)
Close contacts: 80 (decrease of 12)
Deaths: 21 (no change)
Resolved: 1,475 (increase of 6)
Hospitalizations (total to date): 70 (increase of 1)**
ICU admissions (total to date): 15 (no change)
Total tests completed: Over 52,950 (increase of 50)
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)
*The health unit is reporting 2 new cases in the last 24 hours. The total case count has increased by 3 because 1 case has been added to a previous day.
**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. These numbers are from June 5; numbers for June 6 will be included in the June 7 report.
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: 0 (decrease of 2)
Deaths: 11 (no change)
Currently hospitalized: 4 (decrease of 1)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU: 2 (no change)
Currently hospitalized and in ICU on ventilator: 1 (no change)
Resolved: 1,110 (increase of 2)
Tests completed: 147,692 (increase of 2,202)
Vaccine doses administered: 109,319 (increase of 1,997)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 11,633 (increase of 922)
Outbreaks: None (no change)
Province of Ontario
Confirmed positive: 536,082 (increase of 663)
COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) cases: 131,991 of B.1.1.7 Alpha variant (increase of 868); 1,076 of B.1.351 Beta variant (increase of 41); 3,740 of P.1 Gamma variant (increase of 477)
VOC R(t): 0.75 (increase of 0.03 as of June 3)*
7-day average of daily new cases: 791 (decrease of 53)
Positivity rate: 2.8% (decrease of 0.3%)
Resolved: 518,860 (increase of 1,222), 96.8% of all cases (increase of 0.1%)
Hospitalizations: 545 (decrease of 80)**
Hospitalizations in ICU: 510 (decrease of 6)
Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 344 (decrease of 18)
Deaths: 8,854 (increase of 10)
7-day average of daily new deaths: 16 (decrease of 1)
Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,956 (no change)
Total tests completed: 15,391,672 (increase of 22,635)
Tests under investigation: 7,049 (decrease of 5,271)
Vaccination doses administered: 9,992,575 (increase of 158,393), 67.82% of Ontario’s total population (increase of 1.08%)***
People fully vaccinated (two doses): 1,031,520 (increase of 68,263), 7.00% 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.
**More than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the daily bed census so the actual number of hospitalizations may be higher.
***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.
