Niagara Public Health said Wednesday that 29 more residents have died after contracting COVID-19 in its most recent update on the local death toll, updated three times weekly.
The official death toll is now 171.
The region's acting medical officer of health told Thorold News on Tuesday that all deaths have been recorded in individuals over 50, and largely in long-term care and retirement residents.
110 new cases were reported and 118 recoveries, bringing the number of active cases to 947.
Four cases were found in Thorold (192 in total).
Two locations have been added to the list of ongoing outbreaks in retirement- and other medical facilities.
Ontario update
Public Health Ontario has reported 3,266 new cases of COVID-19 today.
The province reported 37 deaths in today's update. Of those, 20 were residents of long-term care homes. Ten of the deaths reported today were individuals between 60 and 79 years old, and 27 were over the age of 80.
Since yesterday,125 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19, and 11 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:
- 3,005 new recoveries
- 1,463 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, up from 1,347 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 362 COVID patients in intensive care units (up from 352 yesterday) and 246 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 245 yesterday).
- 26,064 current active cases in Ontario, which is up from 25,840 reported yesterday
- The province reported 51,045 tests processed yesterday resulting in a 8.5 per cent positivity rate. The province's goal is three per cent.
- There is a backlog of 55.484 tests awaiting processing.
- Of the 3,266 cases reported today, 1,092 are from Toronto, 523 are from Peel, 349 are from York Region, and 57 are from Simcoe-Muskoka.
- Based on case data reported today, the new cases include 461 people under 20, 1,239 people between 20 and 39 years old, 935 people between 40 and 59 years old, 447 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 189 people over the age of 80.
- There were 9,795 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, which is up from 7,607 the day before. 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 200,626 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 169,795 recoveries and 4,767 deaths, of which 2,885 were individuals living in long-term care homes
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,349.7 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario. The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 136.7 cases per 100,000 people from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2, which is up by 31.8 per cent compared to Dec. 21-27 when the average weekly incidence rate was 103.6 cases per 100,000 people.
