Public Health Ontario is reporting 11,899 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. 7 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
- 11,946 recoveries and 42 deaths since yesterday's report.
- There are 135,223 active, lab-confirmed cases.
- The new cases reported today include 1,543 unvaccinated people, 375 partially vaccinated people, and 9,515 fully vaccinated people, 466 cases were reported with vaccination status unknown.
- 2,472 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. 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.
- Among the hospitalized COVID patients are 441 unvaccinated cases, 100 partially vaccinated cases, and 1,327 fully vaccinated cases.
- The seven-day average by vaccination status indicated 74.5 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 68 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 97 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
- 338 people are in ICU due to COVID-19. Of those, 324 people are testing positive and 14 are testing negative. There are 177 people in an intensive care unit (ICU) on a ventilator because of COVID.
- Included in the ICU cases are 119 unvaccinated cases, 17 partially vaccinated cases, and 106 fully vaccinated cases.
- 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.
- The province reported 61,137 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 26.6 per cent positivity rate. Another 100,224 tests are still being processed.
- 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 257 children under five, 484 kids ages five to 11 years old, 874 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 4,837 people between 20 and 39 years old, 3,511 people between 40 and 59 years old, 1,380 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 547 people over 80 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 853,270 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 707,732 recoveries and 10,315 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 5,791.2 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average seven-day incidence rate from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3 was 691 cases per 100,000 people, which increased 46.8 per cent over the seven-day period starting on Dec. 22.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 480 new COVID cases in its Jan. 6 report.
Thirty-two Simcoe-Muskoka residents are currently hospitalized because of COVID-19, and nine patients are in an ICU.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 24,361 cases of COVID-19 with 17,493 of those cases recovered and 291 cases ending in death.
The seven-day incidence rate for Simcoe-Muskoka between Dec. 28 to Jan. 3 was 623.5 cases per 100,000 people, which is an increase of 64.8 per cent compared to the week of Dec. 22.
In Grey-Bruce region, the incidence rate between Dec. 28 and Jan. 3 was 458.7 cases per 100,000 people, which is up by 84.9 per cent over the week of Dec. 22.
