Ontario is reporting 485 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday and three more deaths.

Health Minister Christine Elliott says 309 of the new cases are in unvaccinated people and 41 are in partially vaccinated individuals.

Eighty-one per cent of Ontarians aged 12 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 73 per cent have received both shots.

In Ontario, 20,295,518 vaccine doses have been administered. 81.7% of Ontarians 12+ have one dose and 74.0% have two doses.

174 people are hospitalized (excl. ICU) with #COVID19. 14 are fully vaccinated and 160 are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) August 18, 2021

Ontario recently announced children born in 2009 are now eligible to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The eligibility was widened to include 11-year-olds who will turn 12 this year after the province looked at data from Alberta and British Columbia that didn’t identify risks after administering the shot to that age group for months.

The province’s COVID-19 data reporting website has not been updated since Tuesday due to “technical difficulties.”

However, the below information regarding local cases is available on municipal websites.

Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region:

Hamilton