Province reports 598 new COVID-19 cases Friday

There’s less than 600 new COVID cases Friday, but still an increase from a week ago.

The province reported 598 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, at least 376 of which were people who are not fully vaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown.

The seven-day average for Ontario is now at 537 per day.

Five new deaths were announced, which brings the death toll to 9,922.

The province now releases data about new cases and those in hospital who are vaccinated, partially vaccinated or unvaccinated.

As of November 11, there were 13 patients from Saskatchewan in Ontario, 12 of whom are in the ICU.

There are 462 more resolved cases in the province.

The number of active cases went up to 4,400.

There were 30,230 tests completed the day prior to this report.

The province reported a positivity rate of 2.5 per cent.

So far in Ontario, 22,681,696 vaccines have been administered.

According to the province, 11,555,033 people have at least one dose and 11,126,663 people are fully vaccinated or have received both doses.

Vaccination Status	Cases
Unvaccinated	298
Partially Vaccinated	24
Fully Vaccinated	222
Unknown	54
Total	598

Vaccination Status	In Hospital – Non ICU	In ICU
Unvaccinated	74	59
Partially Vaccinated	14	3
Fully Vaccinated	49	9

Age Group	At least one dose	Second dose	% with one dose	% fully vaccinated
12-17yrs	804,269	758,725	84.52%	79.74%
18-29yrs	2,064,557	1,940,530	84.08%	79.03%
30-39yrs	1,755,267	1,669,405	85.37%	81.19%
40-49yrs	1,631,417	1,573,537	86.94%	83.85%
50-59yrs	1,815,410	1,766,581	88.09%	85.72%
60-69yrs	1,688,095	1,655,578	94.04%	92.23%
70-79yrs	1,123,809	1,106,978	96.89%	95.44%
80+	668,944	652,691	98.48%	96.09%
Adults 18+	10,747,499	10,365,300	88.94%	85.78%
Eligible 12+	11,551,768	11,124,025	88.62%	85.34%
Undisclosed	3,265	2,638

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to November 11, 2021

Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases footnote 1[1]	605,846	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	598	0.1% increase
Resolved footnote 2[2]	591,525	97.6
Change from previous report	462	0.1% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents footnote 3[3] footnote 4[4] footnote 5[5]	15,643	2.6
Subset of all cases that are reported as a health care worker footnote 4[4] footnote 5[5] footnote 6[6] associated with long-term care outbreaks	7,409	1.2
Total number of deaths footnote 7[7]	9,921	1.6
New deaths reported	4	<0.1% increase
Deaths footnote 7[7] reported for residents in long-term care homes footnote 4[4] footnote 5[5] footnote 6[6]	4,022	40.5
Deaths footnote 7[7] reported for health care workers footnote 5[5] footnote 6[6] footnote 2[2] in long-term care homes	10	0.1

Summary of confirmed variant of concern (VOC) cases: Ontario, up to November 11, 2021

Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (Alpha)  footnote 8[8]	146,508
Lineage B.1.351 (Beta)  footnote 8[8]	1,503
Lineage P.1 (Gamma)  footnote 8[8]	5,231
Lineage B.1.617.2 (Delta)  footnote 8[8]	22,052

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to November 11, 2021

Case characteristics	Number
Male	302,872
Female	300,816
0-4	17,434
5-11	32,722
12-19	54,002
20-39	227,502
40-59	169,421
60-79	78,342
80 and over	26,316

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to November 11, 2021

Testing	Number
Total tests completed footnote 9[9]	19,290,043
Total tests completed in the previous day footnote 10[10]	30,230
Currently under investigation footnote 11[11]	11,008

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to November 11, 2021

Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 footnote 12[12]	207 More than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the Daily Bed Census. We anticipate the number of hospitalized patients may increase when reporting compliance increases
Total patients in ICU due to COVID-related critical illness footnote 13[13] footnote 14[14]	130
Number of patients currently in ICU, testing positive for COVID footnote 13[13]	107
Number of patients currently in ICU due to COVID, no longer testing positive for COVID footnote 13[13]	23
Total patients in ICU on a ventilator due to COVID-related critical illness footnote 13[13] footnote 15[15]	72
Number of patients currently in ICU on a ventilator with COVID-19 footnote 13[13]	59
Patients in ICU due to COVID on a ventilator, no longer testing positive for COVID footnote 13[13]	13