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Ontario reports 1,316 COVID-19 cases, 16 deaths
Ontario reported 1,316 cases of COVID-19 and 16 deaths on Wednesday as over 35,000 vaccine doses were given the previous day.
The daily case numbers come as 54,149 tests were processed. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were administered, is 2.5 per cent.
Another 1,212 cases were marked as resolved.
The province says it administered 35,264 vaccine doses since the last report. As of 8 p.m. Tuesday a total of 978,797 doses have been given.
There are 279,204 people who are fully vaccinated.
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 10,976 total cases — up 47 from Tuesday
- 10,068 resolved cases
- 441 active cases
- 52 in hospital
- 289 deaths
- 49,783 vaccine doses given
Halton
- 9,883 total cases — up 33 from Tuesday
- 9,385 resolved cases
- 300 active cases
- 14 in hospital
- 198 deaths
- 165 total variant cases
Niagara
- 8,814 total cases — up 23 from Tuesday
- 8,221 resolved cases
- 224 active cases
- 7 in hospital
- 369 deaths
- 11,962 vaccine doses given
Brant
- 1,547 total cases — up ten from Tuesday
- 1,488 resolved cases
- 47 active cases
- 12 deaths
- 2 in hospital
- 12,240 vaccine doses given; 2,548 people fully vaccinated
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 1,473 total cases — up five from Tuesday
- 1,390 resolved cases
- 39 active cases
- 39 deaths
- 10,129 vaccine doses given; 1,580 people fully vaccinated
Six Nations
- 398 total cases
- 349 resolved cases
- 44 active cases
- 5 in hospital
- 5 deaths
There are now 921 cases of the B.1.1.7 lineage of the virus, first reported in the U.K. That’s up from the 908 cases reported on Tuesday.
Cases of the B.1.351 strain first reported in South Africa and the P.1 strain, first reported in Brazil, remain steady at 39 and 17 respectively.
There are 678 patients in hospital with the virus across the province. There are 281 in intensive care, with 178 of them on ventilators.
The death toll is 7,099 people.
