Kawartha Lakes Public Library Digital Archive

March 11, 2021: Daily COVID Update, p. 2

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2/9 In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 7 new cases to report and an additional 18 cases resolved, with the number of active cases across the region decreasing by 11 to 116. Most of today's new cases are in Toronto (293) and Peel (199). There are double-digit increases in York (79), Ottawa (64), Thunder Bay (48), Simcoe Muskoka (43), Windsor-Essex (39), Hamilton (38), Waterloo (37), Durham (36), Lambton (33), Halton (33), Middlesex-London (26), Niagara (26), Eastern Ontario (18), Sudbury (11), and Chatham-Kent (10), with smaller increases in Leeds, Grenville & Lanark (8), Peterborough (8), Brant (7), Huron Perth (6), and Southwestern (6). The remaining 12 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 4 health units reporting no new cases at all. Of today's new cases, 56% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (425) among people ages 20-39 followed by 322 cases among people ages 40-59. With 1,110 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases is unchanged at 94.1%. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased by 0.1% from yesterday to 2.4%, meaning that 24 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on March 10. Ontario is reporting 10 new COVID-19 deaths today, including 1 death in a long-term care home -- the first in four days. Ontario has averaged 12 new daily deaths over the past week (no change from yesterday). Hospitalizations have increased by 2 from yesterday to 680, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs decreasing by 4 to 277 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators increasing by 6 to 184. A total of 60,619 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 3,515 to 42,033. A total of 1,019,407 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 40,610 from yesterday, with 281,714 people fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 2,510 from yesterday, representing 1.91% of Ontario's population. There are 124 new cases in Ontario schools, a decrease of 70 from yesterday, including 102 student cases and 22 staff cases. There are 27 new cases in licensed child care settings in Ontario, a decrease of 13 from yeasterday, with 20 cases among children and 7 cases among staff. In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 7 new cases to report, including 2 in Peterborough, 2 in Hastings Prince Edward, 2 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton. There are no new cases in Kawartha Lakes.

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