NRPH reports 138 new cases of COVID-19 in Niagara on Thursday, and one new health-care outbreak.
Tabor Manor in St Catharines is the latest to be added to the list of outbreaks in hospital- and long term care settings after the virus was found on the home's third floor.
With 143 recoveries reported on Thursday, the number of active cases in Niagara dropped to 938.
171 residents have passed away after contracting the virus.
Ontario update
Public Health Ontario has reported a record 3,566 new cases of COVID-19 today, the highest number of new cases reported in a single day to date.
The last case record was set Jan. 2 with 3,363 new cases reported.
The province reported 89 deaths in today's update. Of those, 43 were residents of long-term care homes. Four of the deaths reported today were individuals between 40 and 59 years old, 24 were individuals between 60 and 79 years old, and 61 were over the age of 80.
Since yesterday,144 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19, and 22 COVID patients have been admitted to intensive care units.
Today's two updates provided by the province's public health agency today also reported the following:
- 2,776 new recoveries
- 1,472 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, up from 1,463 reported yesterday. This is the highest number of patients reported hospitalized with COVID during the pandemic. In the first wave, hospitalizations peaked at 1,043.
- There are 363 COVID patients in intensive care units (up from 361 yesterday) and 242 COVID patients on ventilators (down from 246 yesterday).
- 26,718 current active cases in Ontario, which is up from 26,064 reported yesterday
- The province reported 65,772 tests processed yesterday resulting in a 6.1 per cent positivity rate. The province's goal is three per cent.
- There is a backlog of 66,970 tests awaiting processing.
- Of the 3,519 cases reported today, 891 are from Toronto, 568 are from Peel, 457 are from York Region, and 78 are from Simcoe-Muskoka.
- Based on case data reported today, the new cases include 448 people under 20, 1,289 people between 20 and 39 years old, 1,051 people between 40 and 59 years old, 514 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 208 people over the age of 80.
- There were 10,350 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered on Jan. 5. The province hasn't yet provided the number of vaccinations given for Jan. 6. There have been 60,380 doses of the vaccines administered to date.
- There are 860 total vaccinations completed (both doses). The vaccine approved for use requires two doses given 21 days apart.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 204,145 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 172,571 recoveries and 4,856 deaths, of which 2,928 were individuals living in long-term care homes
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,373.4 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario. The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 144.3 cases per 100,000 people from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3, which is up by 34.2 per cent compared to Dec. 22-28 when the average weekly incidence rate was 107.5 cases per 100,000 people.
