Ontario Community Newspapers

April 1, 2021: Daily COVID numbers, p. 2

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2/10 Today, Ontario is reporting 2,557 new cases, with the seven-day average of daily cases increasing by 35 to 2,341. There are 55 more confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 UK variant and 4 more confirmed cases of the P.1 Brazilian variant. In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 39 new cases to report and an additional 3 cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region increasing by 36 from yesterday to 190. See below for detailed numbers from each regional health unit. Most of today's new cases are in Toronto (743), Peel (484), York (311), Ottawa (131), Hamilton (119), and Durham (107). There are double-digit increases in Halton (82) Simcoe Muskoka (73), Middlesex-London (71), Waterloo (46), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (43), Eastern Ontario (37), Windsor-Essex (37), Niagara (34), Hastings Prince Edward (30), Lambton (30), Thunder Bay (27), Brant (27), Haldimand-Norfolk (16), Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (15), Chatham-Kent (14), Grey Bruce (14), Sudbury (13), and Southwestern (13), with smaller increases in Peterborough (9) and Leeds, Grenville & Lanark (7). The remaining 8 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with all health units reporting at least 1 case. Of today's new cases, 57% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (941) among people ages 20-39 followed by 738 cases among people ages 40-59. With 1,814 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has decreased by 0.1% to 92.0%. The average positivity rate across Ontario has increased by 0.3% to 4.8%, meaning that 48 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID- 19 on March 31. Ontario is reporting 23 new COVID-19 deaths today, with no new deaths in long-term care homes. Ontario has averaged 16 new daily deaths over the past week, an increase of 1 from yesterday. The number of hospitalizations has increased by 5 to 1,116, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs increasing by 37 to 433 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators increasing by 7 to 259. A total of 62,290 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 1,591 to 42,057. A total of 2,276,313 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 84,060 from yesterday, with 317,715 people fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 1,895 from yesterday.

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