ontario reported 2,400 new covid-19 cases on thursday, and 27 new deaths.
toronto, with 607 new cases, peel, with 528, and hamilton, with 224, remained the province’s worst-hit regions.
there were 92 new confirmed cases in ottawa, according to public health ontario, bringing the city’s total to 26,337 since the pandemic’s start.
due to different data-collection times, those figures may not match those issued later in the day by ottawa public health. the number of confirmed variant cases in ottawa is 5.061 b.1.1.7 (first detected in the uk) cases, 176 b.1.351 (first detected in south africa) ones and 14 p.1 (first detected in brazil) cases.
in other health units in the region, leeds, grenville and lanark reported four new cases, while kingston confirmed five. eastern ontario health unit, which includes cornwall and hawkesbury, saw its case numbers go up by 18, while renfrew county reported one new case.
the new figures raise ontario’s total number of covid cases since january 2020 to 517,090 and its death toll to 8,552. there are 23,026 active cases in the province.
there are 1,320 covid patients currently in ontario hospitals, 721 of them in icu and 493 on ventilators.
additionally, 114,986 vaccine doses were administered in the province in the 24-hour period ending wednesday evening, for a province-wide total of 7,576,624. the number of ontarians who have been fully vaccinated increased by 16,975, to 473,759.