Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 554 new cases today, with the seven-day average of daily cases decreasing by 15 to 732.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 1 is reporting a triple-digit increase — Toronto (149) — with 15 reporting double-digit increases — Windsor-Essex (47), Peel (46), York (41), Niagara (33), Durham (25), Simcoe Muskoka (25), Halton (24), Ottawa (22), Hamilton (21), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (21), Waterloo (20), Chatham-Kent (16), Middlesex-London (15), Peterborough (10), and Brant (10) — and 7 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 67% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (57% have not received any doses and 10% have received only one dose) and 25% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 8% of the cases because of a missing or invalid health card number.
Hospitalizations have jumped by 80 to 375, but some of the increase may be due to underreporting by more than 10% of hospitals over the long weekend. The number of ICU patients has increased by 2 to 194 and the number of ICU patients on ventilators has increased by 2 to 115.
Ontario is reporting 16 COVID-related deaths, with 5 of the deaths occurring more than 2 months ago and are being reported today due to a data clean-up. There were 11 new COVID-related deaths yesterday.
Over 21 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 38,174 from yesterday, with almost 10.1 million people fully vaccinated, an increase of 20,727 from yesterday, representing 68.2% 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 18 new cases to report, including 6 in Peterborough, 6 in Hastings Prince Edward, and 6 in Kawartha Lakes. There are no new cases in Northumberland or Haliburton. An outbreak at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay was declared on September 7.
An additional 7 cases have been resolved in the region, including 4 in Peterborough, 1 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland, and 1 in Hastings Prince Edward. An outbreak at an unidentified workplace in Prince Edward County, first declared on August 7, was declared resolved on September 7.
The number of active cases has increased by 5 in Kawartha Lakes, by 5 in Hastings Prince Edward, by 2 in Peterborough, has decreased by 1 in Northumberland, and remains the same in Haliburton.
There are currently 88 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, an increase of 11 from yesterday, including 36 in Peterborough, 32 in Hastings Prince Edward (15 in Belleville, 9 in Central Hastings, 3 in Quinte West, 2 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto, 2 in Prince Edward County, and 1 in North Hastings), 14 in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Haliburton, and 2 in Northumberland.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,729 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,671 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.
