TORONTO – Ontario remains under 500 cases at the beginning of the week. Today 441 were recorded (and 3 deaths bringing the total from the beginning of the pandemic to 9,903) against 480 on Monday, 636 on Sunday, 508 on Saturday and 563 on Friday. 

Ontario’s seven-day moving average is now 492 – last week it was 371. With 19,368 tests processed in the last 24 hours, the positive rate in the province is now 3.1%, more than double the 1.5% of a week ago: the rate recorded today is the highest in almost two months, it had reached 3.1% on 13 September last.

Of the new cases reported today, 225 concern unvaccinated people, 19 fully vaccinated, 173 with an unknown vaccination status. 244 people hospitalized in hospitals with the virus throughout the province and 134 in intensive care units. Of the ICU patients, 78 breathe with the help of a ventilator. Furthermore, 114 of the ICU patients are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status and only 20 are fully vaccinated.

456 healed today: the total since the beginning of the pandemic is 590,227, while the number of cases recorded is 604,152, including deaths and recoveries.

As for the territorial distribution of today’s cases, provincial health officials in the Greater Toronto Area reported 55 new cases in Toronto, 15 in the Peel region, 30 in the York region and 17 in the Durham region. Outside of the GTA, Ottawa has reported 34 new cases, Simcoe-Muskoka 37 and Sudbury 61. All other regions have reported fewer than 30 new coronavirus cases.

According to the province’s epidemiological report, of the 441 new infections reported today, 80 cases were identified in children under the age of 12. The province has also recorded 30 cases in young people between the ages of 12 and 19 and another 140 cases in people between the ages of 20 and 39. Of today’s infections, 181 were detected in schools across Ontario and of them 159 were recorded in students, 17 in staff members, and 5 in unidentified individuals. There are 482 schools with at least one confirmed case and three facilities are currently closed.

Vaccine-front: 11,098,007 people in Ontario, or 85% of eligible people (over 12 years old), received both doses of the vaccine and are now considered fully vaccinated against the virus.

Dr. Susy Hota, an infectious disease specialist with the University Health Network, told Cp24 today that “people must remain vigilant to contain the spread of the virus. We will see an increase and decline in cases over time and the only thing we can. to do is contain the virus to try to reduce the risk of it exploding and really taking off “.

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