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2/8 Most of today's new cases are in Toronto (700), Peel (331), York (228), and Niagara (123). There are double-digit increases in Hamilton (94), Durham (85), Windsor-Essex (67), Halton (64), Waterloo (56), Simcoe Muskoka (53), Ottawa (45), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (43), Middlesex-London (37), Eastern Ontario (30), Chatham-Kent (25), Huron Perth (18), Southwestern (16), Lambton (15), and Thunder Bay (14), with smaller increases in Sudbury (8), Leeds, Grenville & Lanark (7), Peterborough (6), and Brant (6). The remaining 11 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 3 health units reporting no new cases at all. Of today's new cases, 52% are among people 40 and older, with the highest number of cases (746) among people ages 20-39, followed by 598 cases among people ages 40-59 and 328 cases among people ages 60-79. With 2,491 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.2% to 89.5%. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased since yesterday by 0.7% to 3.3%, meaning that 33 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on January 27. Ontario is reporting 56 new COVID-19 deaths today, including 31 in long-term care homes, pushing the number of COVID-related deaths in the province since the pandemic began to over 6,000. Ontario has averaged 57 new daily deaths over the past 7 days. Hospitalizations have decreased by 44 from yesterday to 1,338, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs decreasing by 19 to 358, and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators decreasing by 15 to 276. A total of 64,664 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 1,486 to 48,386. A total of 317,240 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 11,910 from yesterday, with 55,286 people fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine. The government is now reporting the actual number of people who are fully vaccinated with two doses. Previously, they were erroneously reporting the total number of doses administered to achieve full vaccination as the number of people fully vaccinated; this error meant the government was reporting twice the number of people who were actually fully vaccinated. There are 2 new cases in Ontario schools, a decrease of 4 from yesterday, including 1 student case and 1 case in an unidentified person. There are 20 new cases in licensed child care settings in Ontario, a decrease of 24 from yesterday, with 10 cases among children and 10 cases among staff. In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 13 new cases to report, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Peterborough, 3 in Northumberland, and 1 in Hastings Prince Edward. There are no new cases in Haliburton.