Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 639 new cases today, with the seven-day average of daily cases increasing by 18 to 581.
Toronto is reporting a triple-digit increase of 124 cases. Of Ontario’s remaining 33 health units, 12 are reporting double-digit increases — Peel (97), Hamilton (64), Windsor-Essex (36), Middlesex-London (32), Durham (30), Ottawa (27), Simcoe Muskoka (19), Halton (18), Brant (15), Niagara (11), Waterloo (11), and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (11) — and 4 (including 3 in northern Ontario) are reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 74% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (64% have not received any doses and 10% have received only one dose) and 19% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 6% of the cases.
The number of hospitalizations has increased by 26 to 204, but (as is always the case on weekends) more than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the daily bed census, so the number of actual hospitalizations is likely higher. The number of ICU patients has climbed by 10 to 151, and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has increased by 3 to 82.
Ontario is reporting no new COVID-related deaths.
Almost 20.5 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 22,589 from yesterday, with over 9.7 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 15,652 from yesterday, representing just over 66% of Ontario’s total population.
For a daily summary of cases in Ontario, including a breakdown of cases in each of Ontario’s 34 health units, visit ontario.ca/page/how-ontario-is-responding-covid-19.
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 35 new cases to report over the past 2 days, including 15 in Hastings Prince Edward, 11 in Kawartha Lakes. 5 in Peterborough, and 4 in Northumberland. There are no new cases in Haliburton.
An additional 26 cases have been resolved in the region including 16 in Hastings Prince Edward, 4 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Peterborough, and 3 in Northumberland.
The number of active cases has increased by 6 in Kawartha Lakes, by 2 in Peterborough, by 1 in Northumberland, has decreased by 2 in Hastings Prince Edward, and remains the same in Haliburton.
There are currently 80 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, an increase of 7 from August 20, including 38 in Hastings Prince Edward (23 in Belleville, 11 in Quinte West, 2 in North Hastings, 1 in Central Hastings, 1 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto), 20 in Kawartha Lakes, 15 in Peterborough, 6 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,666 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,629 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,225 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,160 resolved with 58 deaths), 967 in Northumberland County (944 resolved with 17 deaths), 127 in Haliburton County (125 resolved with 1 death), and 1,237 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,187 resolved with 12 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Hastings Prince Edward on July 28.
For detailed data for each health unit, visit the COVID-19 trackers for Peterborough Public Health, Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit, and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
For more information about COVID-19 in Ontario, visit covid-19.ontario.ca.
