Ontario reports 1,076 COVID-19 cases, 18 deaths

Ontario reported 1,076 cases of COVID-19 and 18 deaths on Friday, as the province plans to announce more details about removing the stay-at-home order on some regions.

The daily case total comes as the province completed 62,012 tests. It puts the reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were performed, at 2.2 per cent.

Ontario is reporting 1,076 cases of #COVID19 and over 62,000 tests completed. Locally, there are 361 new cases in Toronto, 210 in Peel and 122 in York Region.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 442,441 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 12, 2021

Another 1,415 cases of the virus have been marked as resolved.

Local numbers will be added when public health units update their data. 

Hamilton

• 9,661 total cases — up 27 from Thursday
• 8,933 resolved cases
• 315 active cases
• 272 deaths

Niagara

• 8,310 total cases — up 37 from Thursday
• 7,462 resolved cases
• 490 active cases
• 358 deaths — up one from Thursday
• 7,677 total vaccine doses administered

Brant

• 1,384 total cases — no new cases reported
• 1,358 resolved cases
• 14 active cases
• 12 deaths
• 3,220 vaccine doses given, 635 people fully vaccinated

Haldimand-Norfolk

• 1,379 total cases — up two from Thursday
• 1,296 resolved cases
• 39 active cases
• 39 deaths — up one from Thursday

Six Nations

• 221 total cases
• 162 resolved cases
• 57 active cases
• 2 deaths

The number of patients hospitalized is down from 883 reported on Thursday to 763. There are 295 patients in ICU, with 204 of them on ventilators.

There are 275 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant (U.K. variant) and three confirmed cases of the B.1.351 variant (South African variant).

The province says it administered another 15,605 doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday. That brings the total number of vaccine doses given to 442,441.

There are 151,282 people who have received both required doses and are fully vaccinated.