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Ontario reports 2,485 COVID-19 cases, 41 deaths over two days
Ontario reported 2,485 cases of COVID-19 and 41 deaths over the last two days.
Monday’s daily case count, released Tuesday because of the Victoria Day long weekend, was 1,446 with a positivity rate of 6.4 per cent.
On Tuesday, 1,039 cases were reported in Ontario. The reported positivity rate was 6.4 per cent, with the province completing 16,857 tests over the last day.
Another 4,090 cases have been marked as resolved over those two days.
Ontario is reporting 1,039 cases of #COVID19 today and 1,446 cases reported yesterday. Today, there are 325 new cases in Toronto, 231 in Peel and 77 in York Region.
Nearly 16,900 tests were completed on May 24th and nearly 20,200 tests on May 23rd.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 25, 2021
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region
Hamilton
- 20,171 total cases — up 45 from Monday
- 18,585 resolved cases
- 796 active cases
- 98 in hospital
- 378 deaths
Halton
- 17,334 total cases — up 83 from Sunday (Halton Region did not report an update on Monday)
- 16,724 resolved cases
- 378 active cases
- 52 in hospital
- 223 deaths
Niagara
- 15,563 total cases — up 26 from Monday
- 14,227 resolved cases
- 931 active cases
- 405 deaths
- 40 in hospital
Brant
- 3,179 total cases — up seven from Monday
- 3,051 resolved cases
- 108 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 6 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,617 total cases — up 14 from Monday
- 2,486 resolved cases
- 80 active cases
- 45 deaths
Numbers released Tuesday has the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 across the province at 1,025. There are 692 patients in intensive care, with 498 of them on ventilators.
The province administered 86,927 vaccine doses on Monday, for a total of 8,251,642 doses.
There are 544,288 people in the province who have received both required vaccine doses.
