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2/9 In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 12 new cases to report and an additional 13 cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region decreasing by 1 to 128. Most of today's new cases are in Toronto (343), Peel (234), and York (105). There are double-digit increases in Hamilton (81), Halton (48), Waterloo (46), Ottawa (45), Thunder Bay (39), Simcoe Muskoka (30), Windsor-Essex (30), Durham (25), Sudbury (24), Niagara (22), Middlesex-London (21), Lambton (14), Chatham-Kent (11), Eastern Ontario (10), and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (10), with smaller increases in Northwestern (9), Leeds, Grenville & Lanark (7), and Brant (6). The remaining 13 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 3 health units reporting no new cases at all. Of today's new cases, 61% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (475) among people ages 20-39 followed by 293 cases among people ages 40-59 and 250 cases among people 19 and younger. With 972 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has decreased by 0.1% at 94.1%. The average positivity rate across Ontario has increased by 0.3% from yesterday to 3.7%, meaning that 37 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on March 8. Ontario is reporting 6 new COVID-19 deaths today and, for the second day in a row, no new deaths in long-term care homes. Ontario has averaged 12 new daily deaths over the past week, a decrease of 1 from yesterday. Hospitalizations have increased by 63 from yesterday to 689, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs increasing by 8 to 290 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators remaining unchanged at 184. A total of 33,264 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 15,954 to 29,845. A total of 943,533 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 31,047 from yesterday, with 276,193 people fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 2,517 from yesterday, representing 1.87% of Ontario's population. There are 263 new cases in Ontario schools, an increase of 168 from yesterday, including 209 student cases, 45 staff cases, and 9 cases among unidentified people. There are 59 new cases in licensed child care settings in Ontario, an increase of 25 from yesterday, with 39 cases among children and 20 cases among staff. These are two-day totals, including the number of cases reported on Friday afternoon and Monday afternoon.