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2/8 In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 11 new cases to report and 3 additional cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region increasing by 4 to 95. There have been 2 new COVID-19 deaths in Kawartha Lakes and 1 new death in Peterborough. Most of today's new cases are in Toronto (444), Peel (199), and York (110). There are double-digit increases in Ottawa (58), Middlesex-London (46), Durham (42), Windsor-Essex (41), Waterloo (39), Hamilton (26), Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (26), Simcoe Muskoka (24), Halton (24), Niagara (20), Thunder Bay (17), and Eastern Ontario (14), with smaller increases in Haldimand-Norfolk (9) and Southwestern (7). The remaining 17 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 4 health units reporting no new cases at all. Of today's new cases, 51% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (437) among people ages 20-39, followed by 367 cases among people ages 40-59. With 1,745 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.2% to 91.5%. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased by 1.3% to 3.3%, meaning that 33 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on February 2. Ontario is reporting 67 new COVID-19 deaths today, including 29 in long-term care homes. Ontario has averaged 50 new daily deaths over the past week. Hospitalizations have decreased by 126 from yesterday to 1,066, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs decreasing by 5 to 336 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators decreasing by 1 to 254. A total of 52,418 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 12,258 to 44,606. A total of 348,331 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 3,716 from yesterday, with 74,994 people fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 2,937 from yesterday. There are 15 new cases in Ontario schools, a decrease of 7 from yesterday, including 9 student cases and 6 staff cases. There are 29 new cases in licensed child care settings in Ontario, a decrease of 10 from yesterday, with 13 cases among children and 16 cases among staff. In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 11 new cases to report, including 7 in Peterborough, 3 in Kawartha Lakes, and 1 in Hastings Prince Edward. There are no new cases in Northumberland or Haliburton.