Public Health Ontario has confirmed 809 new cases of COVID-19 and seven more deaths in the province today.
More than 3,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Ontario to date. Today's seven individuals include one person between 40 and 59 years old and six people over the age of 80.
Seventy-one per cent of the cases reported today are from three 'hotspot regions' in Ontario. Today's new cases include 358 cases from Toronto, 123 from Peel, and 94 from Ottawa. All three of those regions have been put back under modified Stage 2 restrictions by the province as of midnight last night. The incidence rate for Toronto, Peel and Ottawa ranges from 506 to 664 cases per 100,000 people. The provincial average rate is 393.5 cases per 100,000 people.
Fifty-seven per cent of the 809 cases reported today are people under the age of 40.
There are 5,754 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, including 213 patients hospitalized with the coronavirus with 48 COVID patients in intensive care and 29 on ventilators. There have been 66 new hospitalizations reported in the last two days and 11 of those patients are in intensive care.
To date, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 58,490 cases of COVID-19 and reported 49,732 cases as recovered, and 3,004 cases ending in death.
The province has also reported Ontario labs have processed 44,298 tests in 24 hours, leaving 56,138 tests awaiting results. The per cent positivity rate is two per cent as of data collected from Oct. 7.
