more than 50 per cent of ontario adults fully vaccinated
the region of waterloo continues to be the province’s hot spot for infections with 52 new cases reported thursday.
jul 8 2021
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more than half of ontario adults are now fully immunized and 78 per cent of them have had at least their first dose of covid-19 vaccine, health minister christine elliott said thursday.
but that good news was tempered somewhat by the province’s daily case count which jumped to 210 after three days below 200.
the increase was partially due to an increase in testing.
the province also reported four new covid-19 deaths.
there are 194 people in hospital with covid-19 in the province, 215 in intensive care and 145 patients on ventilators.
the region of waterloo continues to be the province’s hot spot for infections with 52 new cases reported thursday, followed by peel with 23, hamilton with 19, toronto with 18, and grey bruce with 17.
the province is reporting nine new cases in ottawa, four in kingston, frontenac and lennox & addington, and two in renfrew county. the eastern ontario and leeds, grenville & lanark district health units had no new cases.
ottawa public health will report its own data later in the day, which usually differs from the provincial figures because the numbers are collected at a different time of day.
in a briefing to reporters alongside elliott, solicitor general sylvia jones said the province will begin to rely more heavily on family doctors and public health units as the need declines for mass vaccination clinics that have been run by hospitals.
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more than 16 million doses have been administered, with more than 1.5 million of those administered in the last week alone.
“mass vaccination clinics, while they have been very successful and a great model to get as many people vaccinated as fast as possible, we do have to acknowledge that hospitals do have a lot of other business that they need to be focused on,” jones said. “as we return to the system, we’re going to be able to get hospitals out of the vaccination business and put it where it historically and traditionally is, which is with the public health units, the pharmacies, and public care practitioners.”
that means involving more family doctors in vaccinations and that the province will also be providing public health units with sociodemographic data on those who’ve had a jab to support further vaccine outreach.
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