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Ontario is reporting its highest single-day COVID-19 case total in months with 1,808 new infections logged Wednesday.
The last time case numbers in Ontario were this high was on May 21 when 1,890 cases were recorded.
Wednesday’s report brings the province’s seven-day average for the number of infections reported to about 1,514.
Of the new cases, 1,046 are in fully vaccinated individuals, 39 are in partially vaccinated individuals, and 625 are in unvaccinated individuals. The vaccination status for the remaining 98 cases was not disclosed.
In hospital, there are 357 patients with a COVID-19-related illness, including 119 unvaccinated patients, 84 fully vaccinated patients, and 11 partially vaccinated patients. No vaccination status was provided for the remaining 143 patients.
As well, of the 154 COVID-19 patients in the ICU, 78 are unvaccinated, 30 are fully vaccinated, and three are partially vaccinated. The vaccination status of the remaining 43 patients was not released.
Labs across Ontario processed 44,726 tests in the last 24 hours, which the Ministry of Health said generated a positivity rate of about six per cent – down from 6.6 per cent a day earlier.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Ontario has seen 636,920 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 614,161 recoveries and 10,093 deaths, nine of which were reported since yesterday.
