Public Health Ontario is reporting 195 new COVID-19 cases in the province today, which close to double the 103 cases reported yesterday.
This week has seen daily case reports in both extremes from the highest reported this month – 203 new cases on July 21 – to the second-lowest reported this month – 103 reported on July 23.
Of today's reported cases, 66 per cent are individuals under the age of 40.
Today's epidemiological update includes 57 new cases reported by the Windsor-Essex health unit, 31 reported by Toronto Public Health, and 27 new cases reported by Ottawa Public Health. Ottawa is in Stage 3 of the province's reopening plan; Toronto and Windsor-Essex remain in Stage 2.
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has reported 10 workplace outbreaks, eight of which were agricultural settings.
Fifteen of the province's 34 health units reported zero new cases and another 11 reported five or fewer new cases.
Today's report also confirmed another three deaths related to COVID-19, all three individuals were over the age of 60 and two were over the age of 80.
Public Health Ontario has reported 2,758 deaths of people with COVID-19, including 1,791 residents of long-term care homes and eight long-term care health workers. Seven per cent of all Ontario cases reported have ended in death.
There have been 38,405 lab-confirmed cases of the coronavirus reported in Ontario since the pandemic began, with 34,100 of those (88.8 per cent) now indicated recovered.
There are 1,547 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province based on Public Health Ontario's epidemiological report. Of those, 141 people are currently hospitalized with 31 patients in intensive care and 20 patients on ventilators.
The province reports 28,809 tests have been processed since yesterday's update.
This week (July 18-24) the province has reported 1,131 new cases, which is higher than the previous two weeks. From July 11-17, the province reported 810 new cases, and from July 4-10 the province reported 929 new cases.
The most number of cases reported in a week was 3,994 for the week of April 18 to 24. That week also had the record for the most number of cases reported in a day with 640 new cases reported on April 24.
In Northern Ontario there are three known active cases.
The breakdown for the health units is:
- Algoma Public Health: 27 cases, rate of 23.6 per 100,000 population. There is one known active case.
- North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 37 cases, rate of 27 per 100,000 population. There are no known active cases.
- Porcupine Health Unit: 69, rate of 82.7 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 70 cases. There is one known active case.
- Public Health Sudbury and Districts: 69 cases, rate of 33.7 per 100,000 population. There are two known active cases.
- Timiskaming Health Unit: 18 cases, rate of 55.1 per 100,000. The last positive tests were done April 28. All of the cases are resolved.
- Northwestern Health Unit: 42 cases, rate of 47.9 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.
- Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 93 cases, rate of 62 per 100,000. There are no known active cases.
The Ontario rate of infection per 100,000 population is 257.1.
