Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 1,145 cases over the past 2 days (581 on Sunday and 564 on Monday), an average of 573 per day, with the seven-day average of daily cases decreasing by 9 to 747.
For yesterday, of Ontario’s 34 health units, 1 is reporting a triple-digit increase — Toronto (118) — with 12 reporting double-digit increases — Windsor-Essex (72), York (64), Peel (52), Hamilton (35), Durham (32), Ottawa (30), Niagara (23), Brant (21), Simcoe Muskoka (18), Middlesex-London (18), Chatham-Kent (17), and Halton (17) — and 7 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the 1,145 cases over the past 2 days, 69% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (60% have not received any doses and 9% have received only one dose) and 22% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 9% of the cases because of a missing or invalid health card number.
Hospitalizations have increased by 19 to 295, but the number of hospitalizations is likely higher as more than 10% of hospitals did not provide data for the daily bed census on Labour Day. The number of ICU patients has increased by 13 to 192 and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has increased by 9 to 113.
Ontario is reporting 5 new COVID-related deaths over the past 2 days (2 on Sunday and 3 on Monday), including 2 new deaths in long-term care homes.
Almost 21 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 35,716 over 2 days, with over 10 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 19,415 over 2 days, representing almost 68.1% 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.
COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from August 7 – September 6, 2021. The red line is the daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, the dotted green line is a five-day rolling average of hospitalizations, and the purple line is the daily number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs. (Graphic: kawarthaNOW.com)
In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 47 new cases to report over the long weekend, including 29 in Peterborough, 8 in Hastings Prince Edward, 4 in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Haliburton, and 2 in Northumberland.
There are 2 new COVID-related hospitalizations and 1 new ICU admission in Hastings Prince Edward.
An additional 34 cases have been resolved in the region over the long weekend, including 18 in Hastings Prince Edward, 12 in Peterborough, and 4 in Northumberland.
The number of active cases has increased by 17 in Peterborough, by 4 in Haliburton, by 3 in Kawartha Lakes, and has decreased by 11 in Hastings Prince Edward and by 2 in Northumberland.
There are currently 77 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, an increase of 11 from September 3, including 34 in Peterborough, 27 in Hastings Prince Edward (12 in Belleville, 9 in Central Hastings, 3 in Quinte West, 2 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto, and 3 in Prince Edward County), 9 in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Haliburton, and 3 in Northumberland.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,723 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,667 resolved with 22 deaths), 1,237 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,183 resolved with 58 deaths), 974 in Northumberland County (954 resolved with 17 deaths), 131 in Haliburton County (126 resolved with 1 death), and 1,295 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,256 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.
