TORONTO —
Ontario is reporting a single-day drop within the decision of new COVID-19 cases with less than 1,000 new infections logged.
Health officials recorded 990 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, which is a decline from the 1,250 cases reported on Friday.
Despite the dip in case numbers, the province’s positivity rate stays at 2.3 per cent as fewer tests had been performed within the outdated 24-hour length then the day sooner than.
The province can be reporting six further COVID-19-connected deaths, bringing the total decision of fatalities within the province to 7,052 since the open of the pandemic. Two of th new deaths had been among long-term care home residents.
On Saturday, health officials deemed 1,152 more cases of the illness to be resolved, bringing Ontario’s decision of recovered patients up to 289,735.
Saturday’s case count brings the total decision of lab-confirmed cases in Ontario to 306,997, including deaths and recoveries.
In accordance to the province, there are now not less than 620 patients infected with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals as of Saturday. Of those patients, 278 are within the intensive care unit (ICU) and 181 of those 281 patients are respiratory with the support of a ventilator.
There are 284 new COVID-19 cases in Toronto, 173 in Peel Location and 82 in York Regon.
The seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases in Ontario is now 1,035.
Variants of tension in Ontario
Health officials confirmed Saturday that 27 more cases of the U.K. variant, also most frequently known as B.1.1.7, had been mark in Ontario, bringing the province’s total count to 826.
There is now a total of 31 confirmed cases of the South African variant, identified as B.1.351.
5 new cases of the Brazilian variant, identified as P.1, had been recorded Saturday, pushing the province’s total infection count at eight.
Meanwhile, 860,412 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Ontario to this level, including 39,698 administered within the outdated day.
In Ontario, 270,625 total vaccinations had been performed as of Saturday.
Backstory:
The numbers outdated on this story are mark within the Ontario Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Day-to-day Epidemiologic Summary. The decision of cases for any metropolis or tell could possibly well also simply differ a puny from what’s reported by the province, on story of native fashions chronicle figures at varied times.
