Ontario reports 2,094 COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths

Ontario reported 2,094 cases of COVID-19 and ten deaths on Monday, as over 2 million vaccine doses have been administered.

The daily case count comes as the province completed 39,470 tests. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were performed, is 6.1 per cent.

Another 1,524 cases were marked as resolved.

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

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region

Halton

• 10,817 total cases — up 87 from Sunday
• 10,226 resolved cases
• 391 active cases
• 29 in hospital
• 200 deaths
• 591 total variant cases (includes confirmed cases and those who screened positive)

Niagara

• 9,553 total cases — up 38 from Sunday
• 8,666 resolved cases
• 512 active cases
• 8 in hospital
• 375 deaths

Brant

• 1,759 total cases — up 17 from Sunday
• 1,678 resolved cases
• 68 active cases
• 13 deaths
• 3 in hospital
• 24,448 vaccine doses given; 2,570 people fully vaccinated

Haldimand-Norfolk

• 1,625 total cases — up nine from Sunday
• 1,496 resolved cases
• 85 active cases
• 39 deaths
• 18,371 vaccine doses given; 1,622 people fully vaccinated

The province says 50,493 vaccines doses were given on Sunday, for a total of 2,031,735.

There are 311,248 people in Ontario who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Minister of Health Christine Elliott received her first dose of the AstraZeneca shot at
a Toronto pharmacy.

She says she hopes this will help combat vaccine hesitancy.

There are 841 patients of COVID-19 in hospital across Ontario, however about 10 per cent of hospitals don’t report data over the weekend.

There are 382 people in intensive care, with 236 of them on ventilators.

The death toll is now 7,337 people.

There are now 1,749 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 63.

There are 82 confirmed cases of the P.1 strain first reported in Brazil.