Province reports 486 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday

Province reports 486 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday's Profile

On Saturday, 486 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Ontario, 307 of which were people who are not fully vaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown.

There were also five more deaths announced, all of which occurred within the last month. The death toll is now up to 9,814.

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

There are 517 more resolved cases in the province.

The number of active cases went down to 3,938.

There were 32,626 tests completed the day prior to this report.

The province reported a positivity rate of 1.7 per cent.

So far in Ontario, 22,208,199 vaccines have been administered.

According to the province, 10,815,108 people are fully vaccinated or have received both doses.

Vaccination Status	Cases
Unvaccinated	282
Partially Vaccinated	22
Fully Vaccinated	157
Unknown	25
Total	486

Vaccination Status	In Hospital – Non ICU	In ICU
Unvaccinated	100	76
Partially Vaccinated	8	3
Fully Vaccinated	31	18

Age Group	At least one dose	Second dose	% at least one dose	% Fully vaccinated
12-17yrs	785,171	719,892	82.52%	75.66%
18-29yrs	2,018,895	1,847,758	82.22%	75.25%
30-39yrs	1,719,089	1,601,160	83.61%	77.88%
40-49yrs	1,607,343	1,528,248	85.65%	81.44%
50-59yrs	1,796,509	1,731,598	87.17%	84.02%
60-69yrs	1,677,001	1,635,689	93.42%	91.12%
70-79yrs	1,118,672	1,098,728	96.45%	94.73%
80+	666,911	649,252	98.18%	95.58%
Adults 18+	10,604,420	10,092,433	87.76%	83.52%
Ontario 12+	11,389,591	10,812,325	87.38%	82.95%
Undisclosed	3,500	2,783

*Summary of confirmed variant of concern (VOC) cases: Ontario, up to October 15, 2021*
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (Alpha)	146,494
Lineage B.1.351 (Beta)	1,503
Lineage P.1 (Gamma)	5,230
Lineage B.1.617.2 (Delta)	19,645

*Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to October 15, 2021*
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases	594,419	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	486	0.1% increase
Resolved	580,667	97.7
Change from previous report	517	0.1% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents	15,634	2.6
Subset of all cases that are reported as a health care worker associated with long-term care outbreaks	7,373	1.2
Total number of deaths	9,814	1.7
New deaths reported	5	<0.1% increase
Deaths reported for residents in long-term care homes	4,020	41.0
Deaths reported for health care workers in long-term care homes	10	0.1

*Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to October 15, 2021*
Case characteristics	Number
Male	297,137
Female	295,133
0-4	16,858
5-11	30,936
12-19	53,096
20-39	223,927
40-59	166,573
60-79	76,929
80 and over	25,993

*Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to October 15, 2021*
Testing	Number
Total tests completed	18,563,680
Total tests completed in the previous day	32,626
Currently under investigation	14,277

*Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to October 15, 2021*
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19	242
Total patients in ICU due to COVID-related critical illness	164
Number of patients currently in ICU, testing positive for COVID	135
Number of patients currently in ICU due to COVID, no longer testing positive for COVID	29
Total patients in ICU on a ventilator due to COVID-related critical illness	103
Number of patients currently in ICU on a ventilator with COVID-19	83
Patients in ICU due to COVID on a ventilator, no longer testing positive for COVID	20