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At least 438 people in ICU, testing captures 9,706 new COVID cases on Monday

6,993 recoveries and 12 deaths since yesterday's report
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Public Health Ontario is reporting 9,706 new COVID cases today, however, that total is likely an underestimate according to the province. 

Increasing COVID case counts driven by omicron have made testing less available, and it has led to the daily totals being an underestimation of actual infections in Ontario. New testing instructions from the province are now limiting testing to certain high-risk groups, leaving symptomatic individuals to isolate but not get a test to confirm whether they have COVID. 

The Jan. 10 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:

Cases

  • 6,993 recoveries and 12 deaths since yesterday's report.
  • There are 140,523 active, lab-confirmed cases.
  • The new cases reported today include 1,307 unvaccinated people, 263 partially vaccinated people, and 7,789 fully vaccinated people, 347 cases were reported with vaccination status unknown. 
  • The seven-day average by vaccination status indicated 62 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 50 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 83 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people. 

Hospitalizations

  • 2,467 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.
  • As of Saturday, hospitalized COVID patients included 457 unvaccinated cases, 115 partially vaccinated cases, and 1,353 fully vaccinated cases.
  • 438 people are in ICU due to COVID-19 (this total is also missing data from more than 10 per cent of Ontario hospitals). Of those, 423 people are testing positive and 15 are testing negative. There are 234 people in an intensive care unit (ICU) on a ventilator because of COVID. 
  • Included in the ICU cases are 123 unvaccinated cases, 18 partially vaccinated cases, and 137 fully vaccinated cases. 

Testing

  • The province reported 40,692 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 26.7 per cent positivity rate. Another 95,540 tests are still being processed. 

Case geography and age range

  • Among the new cases reported today, 508 were from Simcoe-Muskoka, 965 were from York Region, 2,405 were from Toronto, 127 were from Grey-Bruce, and 1,745 were from Peel. 
  • Today's new cases include 230 children under five, 359 kids ages five to 11 years old, 694 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 3,776 people between 20 and 39 years old, 2,913 people between 40 and 59 years old, 1,225 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 512 people over 80 years old.

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 4.2 million people in Ontario with three doses of vaccine.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 888,297 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 737,396 recoveries and 10,378 deaths.

The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 6,028.9 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.


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