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Ontario reports 179 new COVID cases Saturday

Today's update also includes 218 recoveries and 8 deaths
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Public Health Ontario has reported 179 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (July 10).

Today's update also includes 218 new recoveries and 8 deaths. 

The July 10 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:

  • 1,710 active cases, down from 1,757 yesterday.
  • 165 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 189 yesterday.
  • There are 197 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (49 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 134 patients on ventilators (29 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
  • The province reported 23,695 tests were processed yesterday.
  • Another 8,830 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 16 million tests have been completed.

Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)

  • 144,556 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant). 
  • 1,439 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
  • 4,800 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant). 
  • 2,557 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
  • Another 37,222 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 207,507 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 224,864 on July 8.
  • 16,827,434 doses of vaccine have been administered.
  • In total, 6,702,624 people have been fully vaccinated.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 546,983 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 536,028 recoveries and 9,245 deaths, 3,975 of those in long-term care homes.



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