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Ontario reports 887 new cases of COVID-19 Monday
Ontario is reporting 887 new COVID-19 cases Monday and three deaths related to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 461 of the infected people are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status. She says 426 of the cases are in fully vaccinated people.
The data is based on 25,981 tests completed on the previous day.
There are 168 patients in intensive care due to COVID-related critical illness, including 101 people on ventilators.
The province says a total of more than 24 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
Elliott says 90.1 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 and older have received one dose and 87.3 per cent have two doses.
At least five of the province’s 626 long-term care homes currently have a COVID-19 outbreak declared at the facility.
An active COVID-19 outbreak indicates that the home has at least one lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 (in resident or staff) and the local public health unit or the home has declared an outbreak.
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region:
Hamilton
- 26,006 total cases
- 24,627 resolved cases
- 231 active cases
- 420 deaths
- 19 in hospital
Niagara Region
Data last updated for Halton Region on Dec. 5
- 19,028 total cases
- 18,302 resolved cases
- 285 active cases
- 441 deaths
- 15 in hospital
Halton Region
Data last updated for Halton Region on Dec. 3
- 20,582 total cases
- 20,121 resolved cases
- 217 active cases
- 244 deaths
- 6 in hospital
Brant
- 4,338 total cases
- 4,224 resolved cases
- 85 active cases
- 29 deaths
- 1 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 3,543 total cases
- 3,363 resolved cases
- 115 active cases
- 57 deaths
