Here’s an update on COVID-19 cases in Ontario as well as in the greater Kawarthas region.
Ontario is reporting 727 new cases today, with the 7-day average of daily cases decreasing by 10 to 655.
Of Ontario’s 34 health units, 1 is reporting a triple-digit increase — Toronto (144) — and 14 are reporting double-digit increases — Peel (83), Ottawa (70), Hamilton (66), York (54), Durham (35), Windsor-Essex (33), Eastern Ontario (30), Waterloo (29), Halton (28), Simcoe Muskoka (19), Niagara (19), Chatham-Kent (16), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (15), and Brant (13) — with 2 reporting no new cases at all.
Of the new cases, 69% are people who have not been fully vaccinated (61% have not received any doses and 8% have received only one dose) and 23% are people who have been fully vaccinated with two doses, with the vaccination status unknown for 7% of the cases because of a missing or invalid health card number. The 7-day average case rate is 10.25 per 100,000 for unvaccinated people, 5.06 per 100,000 for partially vaccinated people, and 1.58 per 100,000 for fully vaccinated people.
Hospitalizations have increased by 1 to 308, with the number of ICU patients unchanged at 193 and the number of ICU patients on ventilators unchanged at 134. Ontario is reporting 8 new COVID-related deaths.
Over 21.56 million vaccine doses have been administered, an increase of 46,550 from yesterday. Over 10.4 million people are fully vaccinated, an increase of 28,494 from yesterday, representing almost 70.4% 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 16 new cases to report, including 7 in Kawartha Lakes, 6 in Peterborough, 2 in Hastings Prince Edward, and 1 in Northumberland. There are no new cases in Haliburton.
An additional 11 cases have been resolved in the region, including 4 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Hastings Prince Edward, 2 in Peterborough, and 2 in Northumberland.
The number of active cases has increased by 4 in Peterborough and by 4 in Kawartha Lakes, decreased by 1 in Northumberland and by 1 in Hastings Prince Edward, and remains the same in Haliburton.
The numbers for Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton are over the past 2 days.
There are currently 93 active cases in the greater Kawarthas region, an increase of 6 from yesterday, including 39 in Hastings Prince Edward (15 in Quinte West, 14 in Belleville, 4 in Prince Edward County, 3 in Tyendinaga & Deseronto, and 3 in North Hastings), 24 in Peterborough, 15 in Kawartha Lakes, 11 in Northumberland, and 4 in Haliburton.
Since the pandemic began in the greater Kawarthas region, there have been 1,804 confirmed positive cases in the Peterborough area (1,757 resolved with 23 deaths), 1,278 in the City of Kawartha Lakes (1,218 resolved with 58 deaths), 995 in Northumberland County (967 resolved with 17 deaths), 145 in Haliburton County (140 resolved with 1 death), and 1,364 in Hastings and Prince Edward counties (1,312 resolved with 13 deaths). The most recent death was reported in Hastings Prince Edward on September 20.
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.
