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4/9 Resolved: 946, including 483 in Kawartha Lakes, 412 in Northumberland, 51 in Haliburton (increase of 6, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes and 4 in Northumberland) Tests completed: 143,068 (increase of 213) Outbreaks: Regency long-term care home in Port Hope (decrease of 2)***** *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 March 1, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports no patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (decrease of 1). *****Outbreaks at Caressant Care McLaughlin Road in Lindsay and Warkworth Place in Warkworth have been declared resolved. Province of Ontario Confirmed positive: 301,839 (increase of 1,023) Total COVID-19 variant cases: 535 of B.1.1.7 UK variant (increase of 7); 27 of B.1.351 South Africa variant (no change); 3 of P.1 Brazilian variant (no change) 7-day average of daily new cases: 1,099 (decrease of 5) Resolved: 284,283 (increase of 939, 94.2% of all cases) Positivity rate: 3.1% (increase of 0.7%) Hospitalizations: 659 (increase of 32)* Hospitalizations in ICU: 280 (decrease of 9) Hospitalizations in ICU on ventilator: 175 (decrease of 10) Deaths: 6,986 (increase of 6) 7-day average of daily new deaths: 17 (increase of 1) Deaths of residents in long-term care homes: 3,865 (increase of 1) Total tests completed: 11,045,153 (increase of 35,015) Tests under investigation: 13,416 (decrease of 4,902) Vaccination doses administered: 704,695 (increase of 17,424) People fully vaccinated (two doses): 263,214 (increase of 1,111), 1.79% of Ontario's population (est. 70-90% required for herd immunity) *More than 10% of hospitals did not submit data for this report, so the actual number of hospitalizations may be higher.