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.
