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Ontario reports 959 new COVID-19 cases Thursday
Ontario is reporting 959 new COVID-19 cases Thursday and eight deaths related to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 530 of the infected people are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status. She says 429 of the cases are in fully vaccinated people.
The data is based on 38,480 tests completed on the previous day.
There are 155 patients in intensive care due to COVID-related critical illness, including 85 people on ventilators.
The province says a total of more than 23 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
Elliott says 90 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 and older have received one dose and 87.2 per cent have two doses.
At least seven 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
- 25,840 total cases
- 24,418 resolved cases
- 280 active cases
- 420 deaths
- 14 in hospital
Niagara Region
- 18,917 total cases
- 18,291 resolved cases
- 186 active cases
- 440 deaths
- 13 in hospital
Halton Region
Data last updated for Halton Region on Dec. 1
- 20,518 total cases
- 20,057 resolved cases
- 217 active cases
- 244 deaths
- 9 in hospital
Brant
- 4,293 total cases
- 4,156 resolved cases
- 108 active cases
- 29 deaths
- 1 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 3,491 total cases
- 3,319 resolved cases
- 108 active cases
- 56 deaths
