The latest COVID updates published by the province reported three new deaths, and 1,074 new cases.
New case counts do not reflect COVID-19 transmission in the province as testing is not open to everyone. Totals are therefore underestimated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,114,284 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 1,085,011 recoveries and 12,574 deaths.
The March 7 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- Three new deaths, all occurred in the last month.
- 1,365 recoveries since yesterday's report
- Among the new cases confirmed today are 146 unvaccinated people, 38 partially vaccinated people, and 827 fully vaccinated people. 63 cases were reported with vaccination status unknown.
- The seven-day average incidence rate for cases is nine cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 7.9 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 11.3 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
Hospitalizations
- 693 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19.
- There are approximately 249 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID-related illnesses, and 204 patients in the ICU currently testing positive for COVID-19.
- There are 111 COVID patients on ventilators because of COVID-related critical illness.
- Hospitalization data is incomplete on Sundays and Mondays as more than 10 per cent of Ontario hospitals do not report their bed census data on the weekends.
- Vaccination status of hospitalized cases is not available on Sundays and Mondays.
Vaccination
- About 86 per cent of the population over four years old in Ontario is fully vaccinated (about 12 million people)
- More than seven million people in Ontario have had three doses of a COVID vaccine.
- 10 per cent of the eligible population (aged 5 and up) is unvaccinated
Testing
- Provincial labs processed 9,447 tests for the latest report, resulting in an 11.8 per cent positivity rate.
- There are 3,374 tests still being processed
