Ontario reports fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases for 2nd day in a row
Posted June 22, 2021 10:11 am.
Last Updated June 22, 2021 1:10 pm.
Ontario is reporting 296 new COVID-19 cases and 60 deaths on Tuesday.
The province says “due to a data review and clean-up, approximately 80 cases from 2020 have been included in Toronto Public Health’s case count today.”
A separate data catch-up means “54 deaths being reported today are from previous months.”
Without the data glitches the province would have approximately 216 new cases and six deaths. By eliminating approximately 80 cases in the data catch-up the case count would have been the lowest the province has seen since mid-September.
The province is reporting a test positivity rate of 1.6 per cent, down slightly from 2.3 per cent one week ago.
There were 16,784 tests completed in the last 24-hour period.
Locally, there are 123 new cases in Toronto, 61 in the Region of Waterloo, 37 in York Region and 20 in Peel Region.
There were another 442 resolved cases, dropping the active case count once again. Resolved cases have outnumbered new infections each day since mid-April.
The province reported 270 new cases and three deaths on Monday.
The rolling seven-day average holds at 334, without the extra cases from the data catch-up the average would have dropped once again.
There are now 334 people hospitalized in the province with another 314 in the ICU. Hospitalizations are down nearly 100 since on week ago and ICU numbers are down 68 in the last week.
Graphic courtesy of @jkwan_md
There were 199,535 vaccine doses administered in the last 24-hour period.
As of 8:00 p.m. Monday, 12,869,310 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered. Over 75 per cent of Ontario residents 12 and older have received at least one dose while 24.3 per cent are now fully vaccinated.
The City of Toronto reached another vaccination milestone on Tuesday announcing that 60 per cent of youth, aged 12 to 17, have now received their first dose.
Ontarians are being urged to take whichever vaccine is offered to them amid shipment delays from Pfizer.
Public health officials continue to stress that both Pfizer and Moderna are interchangeable and there is “no important difference” between the two, which both use similar mRNA technology.
Toronto officials say they will continue with appointments already booked at city-run clinics over the next few weeks and will increase the administration of Moderna vaccines.
The city says the limited supply of Pfizer doses will be used to vaccinate anyone under the age of 18 as it is the only vaccine approved for use in Canada for anyone in that age bracket.
Peel Public Health also says the Moderna vaccine will be administered in its clinics until at least June 24, saving its supply of Pfizer doses for those between the ages of 12 to 17.
Graphic courtesy of @jkwan_md
More Ontarians become eligible for an earlier second dose of COVID-19 vaccine this week.
Anyone who received their first dose of an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer of Moderna) on or before May 9 can now book their second shots through the province’s booking system.
The province is also accelerating second shot appointments on Wednesday, June 23, for anyone 18 and older that received a first dose of an mRNA vaccine on or before May 30 living in 10 Delta variant hotspot regions.
