Public Health Ontario is reporting 7,951 new COVID cases today, however, that total is an underestimate according to the province.
Today's report includes clarification on the number of patients in ICU with a COVID-related critical illness.
Increasing COVID case counts driven by the omicron variant have made testing less available and daily totals are underestimated. Testing is limited to certain high-risk groups, leaving symptomatic individuals to isolate but not get a test to confirm whether they have COVID.
The Jan. 11 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 9,893 recoveries and 21 deaths since yesterday's report.
- There are 138,560 active, lab-confirmed cases, down from 140,523 reported yesterday.
- The new cases reported today include 1,061 unvaccinated people, 250 partially vaccinated people, and 6,257 fully vaccinated people, 383 cases were reported with vaccination status unknown.
- The seven-day average by vaccination status indicated 59 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 46 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 80 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
Hospitalizations
- 3,220 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19, however that number is incomplete as more than 10 per cent of Ontario hospitals don't report to the bed census for the Sunday and Monday reports. It's not clear how many people were hospitalized for COVID-19. The province has said changes will be made in how these numbers are reported in the coming days.
- Included in the hospitalizations are 552 unvaccinated cases, 123 partially vaccinated cases, and 1,612 fully vaccinated cases.
- There are 477 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID-related critical illness, and 250 of them are on ventilators.
- Included in the ICU counts are 138 unvaccinated cases, 14 partially vaccinated cases, and 158 fully vaccinated cases.
Testing
- The province reported 45,451 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 24.4 per cent positivity. Another 94,223 tests are still being processed.
As of today's report, 11.4 million people in Ontario (77 per cent of the population) are fully vaccinated, and five per cent of the province has one dose of COVID vaccine. There are 4.8 million people in Ontario with three doses of vaccine.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 896,248 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 747.289 recoveries and 10,399 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 6,082.9 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average seven-day incidence rate from Dec. 31 to Jan. 6 was 639.7 cases per 100,000 people, which increased 2.4 per cent over the seven-day period starting on Dec. 25.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
