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Ontario reports 258 new COVID cases Saturday

No new cases in Newmarket since July 29; Slight rise in new cases continues in York Region with 31 on July 31, with 70% of 102 cases in ages 12+ in the last 7 days unvaccinated
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Public Health Ontario has reported 258 new COVID-19 cases in its report today for July 31.

Today's update also includes 137 new recoveries and six deaths. 

The July 31 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:

  • 1,606 active cases, up from 1,491 yesterday.
  • 105 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 108 yesterday.
  • There are 112 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (29 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 83 patients on ventilators (18 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
  • The province reported 19,112 tests were processed yesterday.
  • Another 5,546  tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 16.5 million tests have been completed.

Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)

  • 145,538 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant). 
  • 1,493 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
  • 5,161 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant). 
  • 4,741 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
  • Another 38,435cases 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 81,590 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 83,907 on July 29.
  • 19,459,198 doses of vaccine have been administered.
  • In total, 8,985,638 people have been fully vaccinated.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 547,149 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 539,485 recoveries and 9,345 deaths, 3,980 of those in long-term care homes.