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Ontario confirms 1,575 new COVID cases today

69 people were hospitalized since yesterday's report and 18 people have died
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Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,575 new cases of COVID-19 today, the sixth daily record noted in November so far. 

The province has also reported 18 deaths including two people between 60 and 79 years old and 16 people over the age of 80 years old. 

Since yesterday's report, 69 people have been hospitalized with the coronavirus and 11 COVID patients have been admitted to intensive care units. 

Of the 1,575 new cases confirmed, 448 are from Peel and 472 are from Toronto. York Region reported 155 of today's cases and Ottawa reported 91. 

More than 1,000 of today's cases are individuals between 20 and 59 years old.

The province has reported 103 new school-related cases, including 51 student cases, 14 staff cases, and 38 unidentified cases. There have been 3,166 school-related cases reported to date and 1,046 of those have been reported in the last 14 days. In Ontario 653 schools currently have one or more reported COVID cases. 

There are 11,271 lab-confirmed, active cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. Of those 431 people are hospitalized with the virus including 98 COVID patients in intensive care units and 62 COVID patients on ventilators. 

To date, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 89,784 cases of COVID-19 and has reported 75,220 recoveries (83.8 per cent) and 3,293 deaths (3.7 per cent).

Since yesterday's update, the province has confirmed 39,559 COVID tests processed with 41,977 tests still awaiting processing. Ontario labs have now processed 5.5 million COVID tests. As of data collected yesterday, approximately 5.1 per cent of people tested for the coronavirus test positive. The province's goal for the per cent positivity rate is to keep it below three per cent. 

The average incidence rate for COVID-19 in the province of Ontario is 604 cases per 100,000 people. Toronto and Peel Region are the only health units in the province with case incidence rates over 1,000 cases per 100,000 people. Toronto's rate is 1,011 cases per 100,000 people and Peel's rate is 1,098 cases per 100,000 people. 

In the local region, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported a total of 1,560 cases of COVID-19, with 1,478 of those in Simcoe County. There are 1,360 cases listed as recovered in the region. Eight people are currently hospitalized, and of those seven are Simcoe County residents. The health unit has recorded 50 deaths.

The incidence rate for Simcoe County is 280 cases per 100,000 people.

There were no local updates yesterday, as the health unit closed its offices for Remembrance Day.

Case breakdown from Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit by municipality for Simcoe County as of Nov. 10

Municipality Total cases** Recoveries Deaths In Hospital Last case reported Incidence rate*
Barrie  478 417 14   Nov. 10 320
Bradford W-G  267 230 12 1 Nov. 10 621
New Tecumseth  276 224 12 1 Nov. 10 666
Innisfil 131 118 1 2 Nov. 10 322
Orillia 30 26 3   Nov. 10 90
Collingwood 20 20     Nov. 2 83
Wasaga Beach 32 30 1   Nov. 9 139
Clearview 31 25 1   Nov. 10 210
Springwater 22 21 1   Oct. 27 105
Midland 15 13   1 Nov. 9 84
Oro-Medonte 21 18 2   Oct. 29 90
Adjala-Tosorontio 25 25     Nov. 2 215
Essa 52 42 1 1 Nov. 10 213
Ramara 15 14     Nov. 6 173
Tiny 13 13     Nov. 4 99
Tay 23 15   1 Nov. 9 208
Penetanguishene 18 16 1   Nov. 3 175
Severn 9 9     Oct. 21 60
Georgian Bay 8 8     Oct. 22 not released

 *Incidence rate is number of cases per 100,000 people in the local population.

**Total cases includes the number of cases currently recovering at home as well as any that have recovered, died, or are in hospital


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