Ontario reported another 4,227 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the second-most on a single day at any point during the pandemic.
Ontario reported another 4,227 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the second-most on a single day at any point during the pandemic.
The province logged 4,249 new infections on January 8, but 450 of those were attributed to a data delay.
The Ministry of Health has not indicated that today’s figure includes any older cases.
New cases today include 1,218 in Toronto, 762 in Peel Region, 532 in York Region, 247 in Durham Region, 246 in Ottawa, 174 in Halton Region, 159 in Middlesex-London, 133 in Hamilton and 107 in Niagara Region.
The seven-day average climbed to 3,256. The pandemic peak for that average was 3,555 on Jan. 11.
The ministry says that as of yesterday, there were 1,492 people with COVID-19 in hospital. Of those, 552 were being treated for COVID-19-related sickness in intensive care, the most ever in Ontario. A total of 519 of those patients were still testing positive for the illness, according to the ministry.
CBC News reported last night that Ontario Health has ordered hospitals in much of the province to stop performing all but emergency and life-saving surgeries because of the growing caseload of COVID-19 patients.
Ontario already has a backlog of more than 245,000 procedures that were postponed due a halt in non-emergency procedures last year amid the first wave of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, public health units administered 105,382 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, also the second-most on a single day thus far. As of last night, 328,598 people had gotten shots of a vaccine.
The province has administered about 73 per cent of the 4,031,325 doses it has received from the federal government to date.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford got his first shot of the AstraZeneca at a pharmacy in Etobicoke this morning.
More to come.
