Ontario reports 469 COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths

Ontario reported 469 COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths on Tuesday.

The reported positivity rate is 2.7 per cent with the province completing 17,579 tests in the last day.

Ontario is reporting 469 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 17,600 tests completed. Locally, there are 182 new cases in Toronto, 76 in Peel, 40 in the Porcupine Health Unit Region and 30 in Durham.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) June 8, 2021

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region

There are 621 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario. The number of patients in ICU with 481 with 305 of them on ventilators.

Ontario administered 158,209 vaccine doses on Monday, 70,684 of them were first doses.

There are 1,174,330 people in the province who have received both required doses.

Another 1,010 cases have been marked as resolved.

One northern Ontario health unit won’t be moving into the first step of the province’s reopening plan this week as it battles an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases.

A spokesman for the Porcupine Health Unit confirmed on Tuesday that the region that includes the northeastern city of Timmins, Ont., will not be loosening restrictions on businesses and gatherings this week.

The more infectious Delta variant has been detected in the Porcupine Health Unit, and the region’s top doctor said people should assume it is circulating.