Public Health Ontario has reported 183 new COVID-19 cases today in the July 9 daily update.
Today's update includes 233 new recoveries and nine deaths.
The nine deaths reported today include three people between 40 and 59 years old, five people between 60 and 79 years old, and one person over 79 years old.
There have been nine new hospitalizations and six patients admitted to intensive care units since yesterday's report.
The July 9 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 1,757 active, lab-confirmed cases, down from 1,816 yesterday.
- 189 COVID-positive people are currently hospitalized in Ontario.
- There are 202 patients in intensive care units with COVID-related illness (of those, 51 no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- 143 people are on ventilators due to COVID-related illness (of those, 31 no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 26,101 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 0.7 per cent positivity rate.
- There are 9,714 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 16.1 million tests to date.
- Of the new cases reported today, 50 are from Waterloo, 22 are from Toronto, 24 cases are from Peel, two are from Simcoe-Muskoka, 24 are from Grey-Bruce, and seven are from York Region.
- Today's cases include 41 individuals aged 19 and under, 70 people between 20 and 39 years old, 48 people between 40 and 59 years old, 23 people between 60 and 79 years old, and one person over 79 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 546,804 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 535,810 recoveries and 9,237 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 3,676.6 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average weekly incidence rate is 9.2 cases per 100,000 people, which is down by 23.3 per cent from last week.
Vaccines
- There were 224,864 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday.
- 16,619,927 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 6,515,960 people have been fully vaccinated.
Simcoe-Muskoka
Yesterday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 11 new COVID-19 cases.
There are 57 active cases in the region.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 12,316 cases of COVID-19 with 11,585 of those cases recovered and 252 cases ending in death.
There are 10 people from Simcoe County hospitalized with COVID-19 related illnesses.
According to the health unit, 45 per cent of the region's adult population (aged 18 and over) have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and another 32 per cent have received one dose. The remaining 24 per cent is unvaccinated.
The weekly incidence rate in the region is 4.8 cases per 100,000, which is down by 29.4 per cent from last week.
