Public Health Ontario has reported 1,388 new cases of COVID-19 today.
Today's report includes 45 new deaths, 22 of whom were residents at long-term care homes.
The deaths reported today include one person between 20 and 39 years old, three people between 40 and 59 years old, 11 people between the ages of 60 and 79 years old, and 30 people over the age of 80.
The province has reported 83 new hospitalizations since yesterday, and 13 new admissions of COVID-19 patients to intensive care units.
The Feb. 5 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 1,796 new recoveries
- 15,269 active cases, which is down from 15,722 yesterday
- 1,021 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 1,043 reported yesterday.
- There are 325 COVID patients in intensive care units (even with yesterday) and 228 COVID patients on ventilators (up from 225 yesterday).
- The province reported 62,341 tests were processed yesterday resulting in a 2.6 per cent positivity rate.
- Another 31,924 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 9.9 million tests have been completed.
- Of the 1,388 new cases reported today, 455 are from Toronto, 288 cases are from Peel, 131 are from York Region, and 35 are from Simcoe-Muskoka
- There are 224 active outbreaks at long-term care homes, 122 at retirement homes and 74 at hospitals.
- Of the cases reported today there are 195 people under 19 years old, 491 people between 20 and 39 years old, 412 people between 40 and 59 years old, 201 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 92 cases people over the age of 80.
Variant of concern
- The province has reported 164 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7).
- The province has reported one case of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant).
- 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.
Vaccine update for Feb. 5:
- There were 9,917 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered on Feb 5, up from 7,694 on Feb. 4.
- As of 8 p.m. on Feb. 5, the province reported 372,666 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 have been administered.
- In total, 96,573 people have been fully vaccinated, having received two doses of vaccine, which are to be given a few weeks apart.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 276,718 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 254,966 recoveries and 6,483 deaths, of which 3,719 were individuals living in long-term care homes.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 1,861.6 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
The weekly incidence rate in Ontario is 77.7 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, which is a decrease of 17.9 per cent compared to Jan. 21 to Jan. 27 when the average weekly incidence rate was 94.6 cases per 100,000 people.
On Friday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 44 new cases of COVID-19 in the region.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 5,646 cases of COVID-19 with 4,520 of those cases recovered and 167 cases ending in death. There are 921 active, lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the region, with the majority of those in Simcoe County.
Of the total cases reported in the region, 92 have tested positive for the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (known as UK variant).
There are 39 people from Simcoe County hospitalized with COVID-19.
There have been 19,306 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered in Simcoe Muskoka to health care workers in local hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes, as well as to all eligible long-term care home residents. The health unit reports nearly 3,300 people in the region have received both required doses of the vaccine.
In Simcoe-Muskoka the weekly incidence rate was 51.2 cases per 100,000 people for the week of Jan. 25 to Jan. 31, which is a decrease of 20.9 per cent compared to the week of Jan. 19 to Jan. 25 when the rate was 64.7 cases per 100,000 people.
For the latest breakdown of cases in the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit, click here.
The Ontario government has declared a state of emergency, the second since the start of the pandemic, and a stay-at-home order is in effect until at least Feb. 9, 2021. There are additional measures in place for the shutdown, all of which can be found in this provincial breakdown.
