Public Health Ontario is reporting 3,124 new COVID cases today.
The latest updates also include 1,392 recoveries and five deaths.
The Dec. 17 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
- There are 15,792 active cases, up from 14,065 yesterday.
- 358 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19, up from 328 yesterday.
- Today's update notes 778 of the new cases were unvaccinated individuals, 96 were partially vaccinated, and 2,120 were fully vaccinated.
- The seven-day average incidence rate by vaccination status is 20.1 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 10.2 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 10 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
- The hospitalized cases (not in the ICU) include 116 unvaccinated people, nine partially vaccinated, and 85 fully vaccinated.
- 157 people are in ICU due to COVID-19. Of those, 139 people are testing positive and 18 are testing negative. There are 98 people in an intensive care unit (ICU) due to COVID on a ventilator.
- ICU cases include 76 unvaccinated people, five partially vaccinated, and 33 fully vaccinated people.
- 11.3 million people in Ontario (77 per cent of the population) are fully vaccinated, and five per cent of the province has one dose of COVID vaccine.
- 1.5 million people have received a booster (third dose) since August 2021.
- The province reported 51,636 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in an 8.2 per cent positivity rate.
- Cases reported in today's update include 14 from Grey-Bruce, 138 from Simcoe-Muskoka, 759 from Toronto, 215 from York Region, and 209 from Peel Region.
- Today's new cases include 87 newborns to four-year-olds, 382 kids ages five to 11, 309 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 1,317 people between 20 and 39 years old, 788 people between 40 and 59 years old, 215 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 28 people over 80 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 642,465 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 616,566 recoveries and 10,107 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 4,360.4 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average seven-day incidence rate from Dec. 7 to Dec. 13 was 68.5 cases per 100,000 people, which is up by 40.1 per cent compared to the seven-day period starting on Dec. 1.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 159 new COVID cases in its report Dec. 16.
There are currently 981 active cases in the region.
Four new hospitalizations were reported for a total of 23 Simcoe-Muskoka residents currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 17,077 cases of COVID-19 with 15,812 of those cases recovered and 284 cases ending in death.
The seven-day average incidence rate in Simcoe-Muskoka for the week of Dec. 7 was 93.8 cases, which is down 11.4 per cent compared to the week of Dec. 1.
The seven-day average incidence rate in Grey-Bruce for the week of Dec. 7 was 46.6 cases, which is up 78.5 per cent compared to the week of Dec. 1.
