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Ontario reports 699 COVID-19 cases and nine deaths
Ontario reported 699 cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, the lowest daily case count since October.
The reported positivity rate is 3.6 per cent, with the province completing 20,262 tests in the last day.
Ontario is reporting 699 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 20,300 tests completed. Locally, there are 207 new cases in Toronto, 144 in Peel, 52 in York Region and 50 in Durham.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 9,202,220 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) June 1, 2021
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 20,594 total cases — up 49 from Monday
- 19,260 resolved cases
- 505 active cases
- 68 in hospital
- 388 deaths
Halton
- 17,572 total cases — up 26 from Monday
- 17,121 resolved cases
- 226 active cases
- 30 in hospital
- 226 deaths — up one from Monday
Niagara
- 15,765 total cases — up 10 from Monday
- 14,736 resolved cases
- 623 active cases
- 406 deaths — up one from Monday
- 24 in hospital
Brant
- 3,265 total cases — up seven from Monday
- 3,161 resolved cases
- 84 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 4 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,647 total cases — up one from Monday
- 2,553 resolved cases
- 46 active cases
- 46 deaths — up one from Monday
Another nine people have died, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,766.
There are 804 patients hospitalized with the virus across the province. There are 583 people in intensive care units with 387 of them on ventilators.
Ontario administered 120,195 vaccine doses on Monday. There are 739,722 people in the province who have received both required doses.
Another 1,568 cases have been marked as resolved.
