Ontario reports 1,508 COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths as over 1.3M vaccine doses given

Ontario reported 1,508 cases of COVID-19 and 14 deaths on Wednesday.

The daily case numbers come as the province completed 49,128 tests. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were done, is 3.5 per cent.

Another 58,202 vaccine doses were administered on Tuesday. In total, 1,301,334 doses have been administered as of 8 p.m.

There are 290,659 people in Ontario who are fully vaccinated.

Ontario is reporting 1,508 cases of #COVID19 and over 49,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 542 new cases in Toronto, 253 in Peel and 107 in York Region.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,301,334 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 17, 2021

Another 1,488 cases have been marked as resolved.

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region

Hamilton

• 11,429 total cases — up 48 from Tuesday
• 10,429 resolved cases
• 527 active cases
• 104 in hospital
• 297 deaths  — up one from Tuesday
• 60,898 vaccine doses given
• 271 total variant cases (includes confirmed cases and those who screened positive)

Niagara

• 9,052 total cases — up 48 from Tuesday
• 8,374 resolved cases
• 305 active cases
• 8 in hospital
• 373 deaths
• 13,808 vaccine doses given

Halton

• 10,155 total cases — up 42 from Tuesday
• 9,689 resolved cases
• 267 active cases
• 16 in hospital
• 199 deaths
• 261 total variant cases (includes confirmed cases and those who screened positive)

Haldimand-Norfolk

• 1,516 total cases — up three from Tuesday
• 1,421 resolved cases
• 51 active cases
• 39 deaths
• 14,170 vaccine doses given; 1,613 people fully vaccinated

Brant

• 1,643 total cases — up eight from Tuesday
• 1,542 resolved cases
• 89 active cases
• 12 deaths
• 1 in hospital
• 16,852 vaccine doses given; 2,561 people fully vaccinated

The death toll is now 7,187 people.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is down from 761 to 741. There are 300 patients in ICU with 190 of them on ventilators.