Public Health Ontario has reported 1,848 new cases of COVID-19 today.
The total, however, includes 300 cases from Toronto Public Health that were included in a "data catch-up."
The province is also reporting 43 deaths in its latest update, including 21 people who were residents at long-term care homes.
The deaths reported today include five people between 40 and 59 years old, 10 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 28 people over the age of 80.
Ontario reports 132 new COVID-related hospitalizations and 30 new admissions to intensive care.
The Jan. 31 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 2,313 new recoveries
- 19,216 active cases, which is down from 19,724 yesterday
- 1,159 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 1,273 reported yesterday. According to Public Health Ontario more than 10 per cent of hospitals do not report to the daily bed census on the weekends, so hospitalization numbers could be underreported.
- There are 356 COVID patients in intensive care units (up from 353 yesterday) and 252 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 216 yesterday).
- The province reported 49,352 tests were processed yesterday resulting in a 3.7 per cent positivity rate.
- There is a backlog of 15,616 tests. To date, 9,673,517 tests have been completed.
- Of the 1,848 cases reported today, 726 are from Toronto, 306 are from Peel, 168 are from York Region, and 52 are from Simcoe-Muskoka
- There are 240 active outbreaks at long-term care homes, 136 at retirement homes and 84 at hospitals.
- Of the cases reported today there are 229 people under 19 years old, 673 people between 20 and 39 years old, 548 people between 40 and 59 years old, 271 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 130 people over the age of 80.
Variant of concern
- The province has reported 58 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7).
- According to Public Health Ontario, there are delays between specimen collection and the testing required to confirm a variant of concern. As such, the reports can change and can differ from past case counts publicly reported.
Vaccine update for Jan. 31:
- There were 2,816 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered on Jan. 30, down from 9,373 on Jan. 29.
- As of 8 p.m. on Jan. 30, the province reports 339,644 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered.
- In total, 68,849 people have been fully vaccinated, having received two doses of vaccine, which are to be given a few weeks apart.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 268,211 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 242,807 recoveries and 6,188 deaths, of which 3,595 were individuals living in long-term care homes.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,804.4 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 94.2 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 21 to Jan. 27, which is a decrease of 22.2 per cent compared to Jan. 15 to Jan. 21 when the average weekly incidence rate was 121.1 cases per 100,000 people.
On Friday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 65 new cases of COVID-19 in the region.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 5,360 cases of COVID-19 with 4,148 of those cases recovered and 139 cases ending in death. There are 1,041 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the region, with the majority of those in Simcoe County.
There are 35 people from Simcoe County and one person from Muskoka District hospitalized with COVID-19.
There have been 16,282 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered in Simcoe Muskoka to health care workers in local hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes, as well as to all eligible long-term care home residents. The health unit reports 965 people in the region have received both required doses of the vaccine.
In Simcoe-Muskoka the weekly incidence rate was 59.7 cases per 100,000 people for the week of Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, which is a decrease of 24.5 per cent compared to the week of Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 when the rate was 79.1 cases per 100,000 people.
For the latest breakdown of cases in the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit, click here.
The Ontario government has declared a state of emergency, the second since the start of the pandemic, and a stay at-home order is in effect until at least Feb. 11, 2021. There are additional measures in place for the shutdown, all of which can be found in this provincial breakdown.
