Ontario reports fewest COVID-19 cases in 6 weeks, 63 additional deaths

By Michael Ranger

Ontario is reporting 1,740 new cases of COVID-19 and 63 deaths on Tuesday.

Locally, there are 677 new cases in Toronto, 320 in Peel and 144 in York Region.

It is the lowest number of new cases in six weeks. Ontario reported 1,677 cases on Dec. 13. The drop in new cases comes with another drop in testing.

The province reports over 30,700 tests completed in the last 24 hours. There were nearly 36,000 test completed a day ago and over 60,000 test three days ago. It is the lowest number of completed tests in a 24 hour period since Nov. 24.

The test positivity rate is up to 5.9 per cent from 5.5 a day ago. The positivity rate was down to 3.3 per cent four days ago, the lowest number the province has seen in over a month.

The province reported 1,958 cases and 43 deaths on Monday.

The rolling seven-day average of new cases drops to 2,346. That number has been decreasing now for 15 straight days after peaking at 3,555 on Jan. 11. The last time the seven-day average was this low was on Dec. 30.

There is now a total of 258,700 confirmed cases in the province since the onset of the pandemic with 5,909 deaths. Of the confirmed cases 23,036 are active and 229,755 have been resolved.

As of 8:00 p.m. Monday, 295,817 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

There are 2,261 more resolved cases. The province has reported more resolved cases than new cases for over a week straight dropping the active cases to the lowest number in two weeks.

Among the active cases, 1,466 people are currently in the hospital. Hospitalizations are down 160 patients from one week ago.

Among the hospitalized, 383 are in the ICU and 298 are on ventilators.

Of the new deaths, 35 come from residents of long-term care homes. There are 71 new cases from long-term care home residents and 53 from staff.

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