Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 807 new cases today, with the seven-day average of daily cases increasing by 3 to 730.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 2 are reporting triple-digit increases (Toronto with 175 cases and Peel with 135 cases), with 12 reporting double-digit increases — York (85), Windsor-Essex (72), Durham (50), Hamilton (46), Ottawa (39), Niagara (28), Simcoe Muskoka (23), Halton (22), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (19), Middlesex-London (18), Waterloo (17), and Chatham-Kent (10) — and 5 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 70% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (62% have not received any doses and 8% have received only one dose) and 22% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 7% of the cases.
Hospitalizations have increased by 6 to 326, the number of ICU patients has increased by 7 to 169, and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has jumped by 18 to 105. Ontario is reporting 6 COVID-related deaths, but 2 of these occurred more than 2 months ago and are being reported today as part of a data clean-up, so there were 4 new COVID-related deaths yesterday.
Almost 20.9 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 43,855 from yesterday, with over 10 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 22,571 from yesterday, representing almost 67.7% 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 14 new cases to report, including 8 in Hastings Prince Edward, 3 in Northumberland, 2 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 in Peterborough. There are no new cases in Haliburton.
An additional 12 cases have been resolved in the region, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Peterborough, 3 in Hastings Prince Edward, and 1 in Peterborough. An outbreak at RONA in Lindsay has been declared resolved.
The number of active cases has increased by 2 in Northumberland and by 1 in Hastings Prince Edwards, and has decreased by 4 in Kawartha Lakes and by 2 in Peterborough.
New, resolved, and active cases in Hastings Prince Edward, Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland are over the past 2 days.
There are currently 66 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, a decrease of 3 from September 1, including 38 in Hastings Prince Edward (17 in Belleville, 12 in Central Hastings, 5 in Quinte West, 3 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto), 17 in Peterborough, 6 in Kawartha Lakes, and 5 in Northumberland. There are no active cases in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,694 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,655 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,233 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,183 resolved with 58 deaths), 972 in Northumberland County (950 resolved with 17 deaths), 127 in Haliburton County (126 resolved with 1 death), and 1,288 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,238 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.
