Public Health Ontario has reported 944 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (Sept. 4).
Today's update also includes 728 new recoveries and nine deaths, five of which occurred more than two months ago and were updated based on data cleaning.
The Sept. 4 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- Of the new cases reported today, 559 were unvaccinated people, 92 were partially vaccinated, 208 were fully vaccinated, and 85 are listed as vaccination status unknown (missing health card information).
- 6,306 active cases, up from 6,094 yesterday.
- 309 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 326 yesterday.
- There are 149 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (23 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 97 patients on ventilators (14 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 26,259 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 12,720 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 17.3 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 146,429 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,501 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 5,222 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 11,835 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 45,375 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 45,886 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, up from 43,855 on Sept. 2.
- 20,917,550 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 10,031,003 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 568,822 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 552,976 recoveries and 9,545 deaths, 3,987 of those in long-term care homes.