Editor's note: The government website won't be updating numbers on Monday, Oct. 11 due to Thanksgiving. Data and daily epi summaries for Oct. 11 and Oct. 12 will be available on Oct. 12 at 10:30 a.m.
Public Health Ontario has reported 535 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (Oct. 10).
The update also includes 539 new recoveries and two deaths in the last month.
The Oct. 10 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- Of the new cases reported today, 319 were unvaccinated people, 29 were partially vaccinated, 147 were fully vaccinated, and 40 are listed as vaccination status unknown (missing health card information).
- 4,586 active cases, down from 4,592 yesterday.
- 156 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 258 yesterday. *note: not all hospitals submit data on the weekend*
- There are 153 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (26 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 100 patients on ventilators (18 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 29,755 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 8,610 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 18.4 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 146,487 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,503 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 5,229 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 19,291 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 54,320 cases have screened positive with a mutation detected, but the lineage for the variant strain not yet detected.
- According to Public Health Ontario, there are delays between specimen collection and the testing required to confirm a variant of concern. As such, the reports can change and can differ from past case counts publicly reported.
Vaccines
- There were 29,247 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 37,715 on Oct. 8.
- 22,071,730 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 10,726,674 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 591,866 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 577,490 recoveries and 9,790 deaths, 4,018 of those in long-term care homes.
