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4/9 Tests completed: 142,855 (increase of 517) Outbreaks: Caressant Care McLaughlin Road long-term care home in Lindsay, Regency long-term care home in Port Hope, Warkworth Place in Warkworth (no change) *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. **The N501Y mutation has been identified in variants of concern including the B.1.1.7 UK variant, the B.1.351 South Africa variant, and the P.1 Brazilian variant. ***This total includes an additional 3 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts' county. ****As of February 26, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 1 patient hospitalized with COVID-19 (no change). Province of Ontario Confirmed positive: 299,754 (increase of 1,185) Total COVID-19 variant cases: 508 of B.1.1.7 UK variant (increase of 31); 25 of B.1.351 South Africa variant (increase of 11); 2 of P.1 Brazilian variant (no change) 7-day average of daily new cases: 1,108 (decrease of 6) Resolved: 282,315 (increase of 984, 94.2% of all cases) Positivity rate: 2.1% (decrease of 0.2%) Hospitalizations: 680 (decrease of 3) Hospitalizations in ICU: 276 (decrease of 8) Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 182 (decrease of 11) Deaths: 6,960 (increase of 16) 7-day average of daily new deaths: 16 (decrease of 2) Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,865 (increase of 1) Total tests completed: 10,995,968 (increase of 59,416) Tests under investigation: 27,989 (decrease of 7,513) Vaccination doses administered: 668,104 (increase of 24,339) People fully vaccinated (two doses): 260,972 (increase of 2,958), 1.77% of Ontario's population (est. 70-90% required for herd immunity)