Ontario reports 1,571 COVID-19 cases and ten deaths ahead of budget release

Ontario reported 1,571 cases of COVID-10 and ten deaths on Wednesday, as the provincial government will deliver its second pandemic budget.

Another 1,531 cases have been marked as resolved, while 72,451 another vaccine doses were administered.

As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, a total of 1,676,150 doses have been given. There are 302,664 people in the province who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region

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

Niagara

• 9,305 total cases — up 53 from Tuesday
• 8,550 resolved cases
• 380 active cases
• 6 in hospital
• 375 deaths — up one from Tuesday
• 18,182 vaccine doses given by Niagara Public Health

Brant

• 1,702 total cases — up seven from Tuesday
• 1,635 resolved cases
• 54 active cases
• 13 deaths
• 2 in hospital
• 43 total variant cases
• 20,280 vaccine doses given; 2,566 people fully vaccinated

Haldimand-Norfolk

• 1,567 total cases — up eight from Tuesday
• 1,455 resolved cases
• 68 active cases
• 39 deaths
• 16,557 vaccine doses given; 1,619 people fully vaccinated

The number of people in hospital is up again, with 893 COVID-19 patients. There are 333 people in intensive care with 210 of them on ventilators.

The daily case count comes as the province completed 51,962 tests. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were done, is 3.8 per cent.

There are now 1,389 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 lineage of the virus, which was first reported in the U.K.

Confirmed cases of the B.1.351 strain, first reported in South Africa, are at 50.

There are 47 confirmed cases of the P.1 strain first reported in Brazil.