Public Health Ontario has reported 4,250 new cases of COVID-19 today (April 18).
Today's report includes 3,338 recoveries and 18 new deaths.
The April 18 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 41,588 active cases, which is up from 40,694 yesterday.
- 2,107 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, up from 2,065 reported yesterday.
- There are 741 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (up from 726 yesterday) and 506 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 501 reported yesterday).
- The province reported 53,776 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 28,651 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 13.5 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 34,112 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7).
- 104 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant).
- 207 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil.
- Another 27,373 cases have screened positive with a mutation detected, but the lineage for the variant strain not yet detected.
- 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.
Vaccines
- There were 86,565 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered on April 17, which is down from 107,278 doses on April 16.
- As of 8 p.m. on April 17, the province reported 3,837,881 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered.
- In total, 345,310 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 416,995 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 367,691 recoveries and 7,716 deaths, of which 3,912 were individuals living in long-term care facilities.