Public Health Ontario has reported 166 new COVID-19 cases in its report today for July 10.
Today's update also includes 278 new recoveries and six deaths.
The July 11 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 1,592 active cases, down from 1,710 yesterday.
- 130 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 165 yesterday.
- There are 155 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (47 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 132 patients on ventilators (25 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 19,651 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 8,387 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 16.1 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 144,700 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,440 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 4,818 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 2,707 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 37,130 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 170,537 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 207,507 on July 9.
- 16,997,971 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 6,855,946 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 547,149 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 536,306 recoveries and 9,251 deaths, 3,975 of those in long-term care homes.
