Public Health Ontario has reported 654 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (Oct. 9).
Today's update also includes 577 new recoveries and two deaths in the last month.
The Oct. 9 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- Of the new cases reported today, 385 were unvaccinated people, 30 were partially vaccinated, 190 were fully vaccinated, and 49 are listed as vaccination status unknown (missing health card information).
- 4,592 active cases, up from 4,517 yesterday.
- 258 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 271 yesterday.
- There are 153 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (23 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 94 patients on ventilators (15 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 31,123 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 16,225 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).
- 19,126 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 54,104 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 37,715 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, up from 30,575 on Oct. 7.
- 22,042,483 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 10,707,708 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 591,331 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 576,951 recoveries and 9,788 deaths, 4,018 of those in long-term care homes.
