The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

4/9 *The health unit states that total counts and counts for individual counties may fluctuate from previously reported counts as cases are transferred to or from the health unit based on case investigation details and routine data cleaning. **This total includes an additional 8 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts' county. ***As of February 24, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports no patients are hospitalized with COVID-19 (no change). Province of Ontario Confirmed positive: 296,173 (increase of 1,054) 7-day average of daily new cases: 1,084 (increase of 29) Resolved: 279,230 (increase of 1,291, 94.3% of all cases) Positivity rate: 2.4% (decrease of 1.8%) Hospitalizations: 675 (decrease of 43) Hospitalizations in ICU: 287 (increase of 4) Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 182 (decrease of 4) Deaths: 6,893 (increase of 9) 7-day average of daily new deaths: 23 (decrease of 1) Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,860 (increase of 2) Total tests completed: 10,806,152 (increase of 54,852) Tests under investigation: 41,251 (increase of 12,449) Vaccination doses administered: 602,848 (increase of 17,141) People fully vaccinated (two doses): 251,590 (increase of 4,548), 1.71% of Ontario's population (est. 70-90% required for herd immunity) Total COVID-19 variant cases: 395 of B.1.1.7 UK variant (increase of 5); 9 of B.1.351 South Africa variant (no change); 1 of P.1 Brazilian variant (no change)