393 recoveries and 346 new COVID-19 cases reported in Ontario today

Public Health Ontario is reporting 346 new cases of COVID-19 today.

The provincial agency’s daily report also includes 59 new deaths and 393 recoveries.

The most recent deaths include two people between the ages of 40-59, 13 people between the ages of 60 and 79, and 44 people over the age of 80.

There are now 1,016 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, including 203 patients in an intensive care unit and 158 patients on ventilators. Over the course of the pandemic, about 12.5 cases of the coronavirus reported in Ontario have been hospitalized.

There have been a total of 3,291 cases confirmed in health care workers over the course of the pandemic, which is about 16.5 per cent of the province’s cases.

Today’s report indicates there were 19,227 tests processed on Thursday, and there are another 15,307 in the queue. Ontario has now completed 416,376 tests.

Public Health Ontario has recorded 19,944 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province since the pandemic began. Of those, 14,383 people have recovered (72.1 per cent) and 1,599 people have died (8 per cent). Seventy per cent of the deaths in Ontario have been people aged 80 or over, and about 48 per cent of all the deaths reported by Public Health Ontario have been residents of long-term care homes.

The Ministry of Long-Term Care has reported there are now 175 outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Ontario, including 2,773 active cases of COVID-19 confirmed in residents and 1,736 in staff. The ministry has reported 1,187 deaths of residents attributed to the virus.

There have now been 360 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the Simcoe-Muskoka region, including 184 recoveries and 25 deaths.

The breakdown of cases in each municipality is as follows:

Barrie (119 cases, 61 recoveries, 7 deaths, 1 in hospital), Bradford West Gwillimbury (80 cases, 29 recoveries, 10 deaths, 3 in hospital), New Tecumseth (24 cases, 17 recoveries, 2 in hospital), Orillia (15 cases, 10 recoveries, 2 deaths), Collingwood (11 cases, 7 recoveries, 1 in hospital), Innisfil (28 cases, 13 recoveries, 1 in hospital), Springwater (6 cases, 4 recoveries, 1 death), Midland (6 cases, 5 recoveries), Wasaga Beach (11 cases, 5 recoveries, 1 death), Oro-Medonte (5 cases, 2 recoveries, 2 deaths, 1 in hospital), Adjala-Tosorontio (7 cases, 5 recoveries), Clearview (6 cases, 2 recoveries, 1 in hospital), Essa (7 cases, 3 recoveries, 1 death), Ramara (5 cases, 2 recoveries), Tiny (2 cases, all recovered), Tay (2 cases), Penetanguishene (2 cases, all recovered), and Severn (3 cases) for a total of 339 cases in Simcoe County, including 169 recoveries.

There are also 18 confirmed positive cases in Muskoka, and 15 have recovered, one person from Muskoka Lakes has died.

The case rate (including lab-confirmed cases only) for Simcoe-Muskoka region is 60.4 cases per 100,000 population. The provincial average is 134.2 cases per 100,000 population.