Ontario reports fewest new COVID-19 cases in nearly 9 months
Posted July 5, 2021 10:16 am.
Last Updated July 5, 2021 12:40 pm.
Ontario is reporting 170 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death on Monday.
It is the smallest daily increase of new infections since Sept. 9.
The province is reporting a test positivity rate of 1.3 per cent, down from 1.8 per cent one week ago.
There were 12,949 tests completed in the last 24-hour period.
Locally, there are 34 new cases in the Region of Waterloo, 27 in Toronto, 18 in Grey Bruce and 13 in the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit region.
There were another 233 resolved cases, dropping the active case count.
The rolling seven-day average of new cases is down to 223, the lowest it has been since Sept. 15.
The province reported 213 cases and nine deaths on Sunday.
There are now 228 people in the ICU with COVID-19 complications and 157 ICU patients on a ventilator. The number of ICU patients has dropped to the lowest point since early December.
Graphic courtesy of @jkwan_md
There were 144,795 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the last 24-hour period.
As of 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, 15,705,866 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, 77.5 per cent of Ontario residents 12 and older have received at least one dose while 44 per cent are now fully vaccinated.
All Ontarians aged 12 to 17 are now eligible for an accelerated second dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
The tweens and teens will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech shot – the only COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in youth in Canada.
The federal government is expecting to receive 3.7 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week.
The new deliveries will include about 900,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 2.8 million doses of Moderna vaccine.
Those shipments will push Canada’s total vaccine deliveries above 53.7 million doses, enough to administer two shots to more than 75 per cent of eligible residents.
Graphic courtesy of @jkwan_md
