by: aedan helmer
ontario is reporting 129 new laboratory-confirmed covid-19 cases and five related deaths tuesday.
that includes four new cases in ottawa, according to provincial data.
there are 37 new cases in toronto, 22 in peel and 12 in hamilton. renfrew county, hastings prince edward county, and in the eastern ontario public health unit each reported one new case. no new cases were identified in kingston or in leeds, grenville and lanark.
there were 13,644 tests conducted in the past 24 hours province wide with a 1.0 per cent test positivity.
another 92,035 vaccine doses were administered monday as ontario surpassed the 80 per cent target for first doses.
a total of 19,110,428 vaccine doses have now been administered in the province, and according to the latest data, 80.4 per cent of eligible residents (age 12-plus) have received their first shot.
a total 8,702,111 people have now been fully immunized with both doses, which represents 67.3 per cent of the eligible population.
there have now been 549,576 total cases in ontario and 9,321 deaths. another 158 cases were resolved in the past 24 hours and 538,860 people have now recovered.
there are 125 patients currently in hospital, with an additional 127 in intensive care, including 81 who require a ventilator.