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April 21, 2021: Daily COVID Update, p. 2

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2/9 Hospitalizations have dropped slightly, but ICU admissions and patients on ventilators continue to increase to record highs, with Ontario reporting 32 new deaths. Ontario has now administered more than 4 million doses of vaccine. In the greater Kawarthas region, there are 23 new cases to report and an additional 57 cases resolved, with the number of active cases decreasing by 36 to 317. Most of the new cases reported today are in Toronto (1,249), Peel (771), York (386), Hamilton (276), Niagara (201), Ottawa (177), Halton (168), Simcoe Muskoka (124), Waterloo (120), and Middlesex-London (117). There are double-digit increases reported today in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (82), Windsor-Essex (74), Brant (50), Southwestern (24), Eastern Ontario (22), Haldimand- Norfolk (21), Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (20), Thunder Bay (16), Leeds, Grenville & Lanark (13), Porcupine (11), Hastings Prince Edward (11), and Peterborough (11), with smaller increases in Northwestern (9), Timiskaming (9), Algoma (8), Sudbury (8), Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (8), and Grey Bruce (7). The remaining 6 health units are reporting 5 or fewer new cases, with 3 health units (North Bay Parry Sound, Renfrew, and Chatham-Kent) reporting no new cases at all. Of today's new cases, 55% are among people 39 and younger, with the highest number of cases (1,554) among people ages 20-39 followed by 1,263 cases among people ages 40-59 and 759 cases among people 19 and under. With 4,204 more cases resolved since yesterday, the percentage of resolved cases has increased by 0.1% to at 88.2%. The average positivity rate across Ontario has decreased by 2.1% to 7.9%, meaning that 79 out of every 1,000 tests performed were positive for COVID-19 on April 20. Ontario is reporting 32 new COVID-19 deaths today, with no new deaths in long-term care homes. Ontario has averaged 26 new daily deaths over the past week, an increase of 1 from yesterday. The number of hospitalizations has decreased by 25 to 2,335, with the number of patients with COVID-19 in ICUs increasing by 17 to 790 and the number of patients with COVID-19 on ventilators increasing by 29 to 566 A total of 51,877 tests were completed yesterday, with the backlog of tests under investigation increasing by 2,902 to 32,119. A total of 4,131,882 doses of vaccine have now been administered, an increase of 136,695 from yesterday, with 349,396 people fully vaccinated with both doses of vaccine, an increase of 1,799 from yesterday.

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