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Ontario reports 192 new cases of COVID-19 Friday
Ontario is reporting 192 new COVID-19 cases Friday and another person has died from the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 43 new cases in Toronto, 25 in Peel Region, 18 in York Region, 18 in the Region of Waterloo, and 11 in Durham Region.
There are currently 136 patients in intensive care with COVID-related critical illness and 84 on ventilators.
The province says 120,231 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered Thursday for a total of more than 18.7 million.
Of the province’s 626 long-term care homes, at least five are in an outbreak including Arbour Creek Long-Term Care Centre in Hamilton, St. Joseph’s Villa in Dundas, and The Village of Tansley Woods in Burlington.
An active COVID-19 outbreak indicates that the home has at least one lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 (in resident or staff) and the local public health unit or the home has declared an outbreak.
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region:
Hamilton
- 21,513 total cases
- 20,523 resolved cases
- 111 active cases
- 400 deaths
- 29 in hospital
Niagara Region
- 16,322 total cases
- 15,856 resolved cases
- 47 active cases
- 419 deaths
- 5 in hospital
Halton Region
Halton Region has not yet updated data from July 22
- 18,136 total cases (July 22)
- 17,850 resolved cases (July 22)
- 50 active cases (July 22)
- 236 deaths (July 22)
- 7 in hospital (July 22)
Brant
- 3,429 total cases
- 3,403 resolved cases
- 6 active cases (July 21)
- 20 deaths (July 21)
- 0 in hospital (July 21)
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,725 total cases
- 2,662 resolved cases
- 9 active cases
- 48 deaths
