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Ontario reports 745 COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths, ministry says count underestimated
Ontario reported 745 cases of COVID-19 and 14 deaths on Tuesday, but the province says the daily count is underestimated because of data cleanup in Toronto.
The Ministry of Health says Toronto Public Health is reporting a negative case count because of data correction, including the identification of duplicate cases.
Please note that Toronto Public Health has now migrated all of their data to the provincial data system, CCM. This migration has impacted today’s daily counts, resulting in an underestimation of cases. We anticipate fluctuations in case numbers over the next few days.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 2, 2021
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 9,286 total cases — up 48 from Monday
- 8,335 resolved cases
- 567 active cases
- 256 deaths — up four from Monday
Halton
- 8,468 total cases — up 29 from Monday
- 7,951 resolved cases
- 354 active cases
- 163 deaths — up two from Monday
- 42 in hospital
Niagara
- 7,974 total cases — up 33 from Monday
- 6,588 resolved cases
- 1,062 active cases
- 324 deaths — up eight from Monday
Brant
- 1,355 total cases — up three from Monday
- 1,308 resolved cases
- 38 active cases
- 9 deaths
- 5 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 1,333 total cases — up six from Monday
- 1,237 resolved cases
- 53 active cases
- 38 deaths
Six Nations
- 154 total cases — up one from Monday
- 143 resolved cases
- 10 active cases
- 2 deaths — up one from Monday
The numbers come as the province performed 28,552 tests. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were performed, is 4.6 per cent.
Another 2,715 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered on Monday. As of 8 p.m. a total of 344,615 doses have been given.
There are 72,057 people who have received both doses and are fully vaccinated.
There are 1,192 patients hospitalized with COVID-19. 341 of them are in intensive care and 253 of those are on ventilators.
Another 2,297 cases of the virus have been marked as resolved.
The death toll is now 6,238 people.
There are 109 confirmed cases of the U.K. variant and one case of the South African variant in Ontario.
