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Ontario reports 663 new COVID cases Sunday

Today's update also includes 1,222 new recoveries and 10 deaths
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Public Health Ontario has reported 663 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (June 6).

Today's update also includes 1,222 new recoveries and 10 deaths. 

The June 6 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:

  • 545 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 625 yesterday. (*note: More than 10 per cent of hospitals did not submit data to the Daily Bed Census. The number of hospitalized patients may increase when reporting compliance increases).
  • There are 510 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (down from 516 yesterday) and 344 COVID patients on ventilators (down from 362  reported yesterday).
  • The province reported 22,635 tests were processed yesterday.
  • Another 7,049 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 15.39 million tests have been completed.

Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)

  • 131,991 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7). 
  • 1,076 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant).
  • 3,740 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil. 
  • Another 30,728 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 158,393 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 172,855 on June 4.
  • 9,992,575 doses of vaccine have been administered.
  • In total, 1,031,520 people have been fully vaccinated.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 536,082 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 518,860 recoveries and 8,854 deaths, 3,956 of those in long-term care homes.



About the Author: Megan Pounder

Megan Pounder is a Sault Ste. Marie-based journalist and a member of the Village Media news desk
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