Public Health Ontario is reporting 404 new cases of COVID-19 today, which is an increase of 1.6 per cent to the province’s cumulative total of cases.
This is the lowest daily case increase reported by the province in the last five days, but testing is also down with a reported 8,170 tests completed since the last report by the province’s public health agency.
From May 18 to today, daily testing has ranged from 5,813 to 11,383. In previous weeks, there were up to 18,000 tests processed in a single day.
Public Health Ontario is reporting 29 deaths attributed to COVID-19 today, including two people between the ages of 40 and 59, five people between the ages of 60 and 79, and 22 people over the age of 80.
Since yesterday’s, there have been 491 new recoveries reported.
Anyone whose symptom onset date occurred 14 days ago and who is not hospitalized is considered recovered for the purposes of the daily update. Those people who are reported as recovered may still be experiencing symptoms with varying severity.
There are currently 859 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 148 people in intensive care units and 114 patients on ventilators.
Since the start of the pandemic, Public Health Ontario has reported 25,904 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been 19,968 recoveries reported (76 per cent), and 2,102 people have died (8.1 per cent).
The Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care reported today there are 159 active outbreaks at long-term care homes in the province, including 1,926 active cases in residents and 1,395 active cases in staff. The ministry has reported 1,531 deaths of residents and six staff deaths attributed to the coronavirus.
Public Health Ontario has reported 1,323 resident deaths and four staff deaths. The reports by public health lag behind those from the ministry.
Public Health Ontario also reports 81 active outbreaks in retirement homes and 52 at hospitals.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported 443 total cases of COVID-19 in the region, 328 people have recovered, including 310 residents in Simcoe County. Thirty-five people from Simcoe County, and one resident from Muskoka have died from the coronavirus.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit does not provide public updates of local COVID-19 cases on the weekends, but will provide an update on Monday.
According to the Public Health Ontario report, there are at least 450 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the Simcoe-Muskoka region.
Three institutional outbreaks remain active in the region, one at Owen Hill Care Community in Barrie, one at Collingwood Nursing Home, and one at Bayview Retirement Home in Waubaushene.
The case rate (including lab-confirmed cases only) for the Simcoe-Muskoka region is 75.1 cases per 100,000 population. The provincial average is 174.3 cases per 100,000 population.
