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Ontario reports 578 new COVID cases Saturday

Saturday's report includes 260 recoveries and two deaths
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Public Health Ontario reported 578 new COVID cases in today's update (Aug. 14). 

This is the third consecutive report of more than 500 cases in a day, numbers not seen since mid-June in Ontario.

Today's update noted 260 recoveries and two deaths.

The Aug. 14 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:

  • 3,426 active, lab-confirmed cases, up from 3,110 yesterday.
  • 136 people are currently hospitalized in Ontario with COVID-19.
  • There are 82 COVID-positive people in intensive care units, another 29 patients in the ICU because of COVID no longer test positive. 
  • 49 COVID-positive are on ventilators, and another 23 patients ventilated because of COVID no longer test positive.
  • The province reported 23,468 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 2.4 per cent positivity rate. 
  • There are 10,036 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 16.8 million tests to date.

Vaccination status

The vaccination breakdown for new cases is as follows: 

  • New cases include 408 unvaccinated, 59 partially vaccinated, and 111 fully vaccinated. 
  • Hospitalized (non-ICU) cases include 68 unvaccinated, six partially vaccinated, and 11 fully vaccinated.
  • ICU cases include 53 unvaccinated, four partially vaccinated, and one fully vaccinated.

Today's vaccination rate update includes:

  • 50,343 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday.
  • 20,146,936 doses of vaccine have been administered.
  • In total, 9,532,105 people have been fully vaccinated.

Total case counts and rates

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 555,050 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 542,206 recoveries and 9,418 deaths.


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