Ontario reports over 200 new COVID-19 cases

Ontario is reporting 213 new cases of COVID-19 and 14 news deaths on Thursday.

It comes after the province saw three straight days below 200 new infections.

The province said today due to a data clean-up, 12 of the 14 deaths being reported occurred between February and May 2021.

The test positivity rate is 1.2 per cent, down slightly from 1.3 per cent one week ago. The positivity rate has been over one per cent for a week straight.

There were 23,500 tests completed in the last 24-hour period, up from nearly 17,115 one day ago.

Locally, there are 44 new cases in Toronto, 31 in Peel Region, 18 in York Region, 18 in Hamilton and 17 in Windsor-Essex.

The active case count in the province has increased by 16  – there were 183 resolved cases.

The rolling seven-day average is now 198, up from 161 one week ago and down slightly from the previous day.

There are now 113 people hospitalized and 110 people in the ICU with COVID-19 complications. Of those, 77 ICU patients on a ventilator. There were two new ICU admissions and one new hospitalization day over day.

Ontario administered 58,213 vaccine doses in the last 24-hour period.

As of 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, 19,710,224 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, with 81.4 per cent of Ontario residents 12 and older having received at least one dose, 71.1 per cent are now fully vaccinated.