Public Health Ontario reported 526 new COVID cases in today's update for Aug. 15.
Today's update noted 321 recoveries and zero deaths.
The Aug. 16 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 3,872 active, lab-confirmed cases, up from 3,667 yesterday.
- 108 COVID-positive people are currently hospitalized in Ontario.
- There are 92 COVID-positive people in intensive care units, another 27 patients in the ICU with COVID-related illness who no longer test positive for COVID-19.
- 49 COVID-positive are on ventilators, and another 17 patients ventilated because of COVID no longer test positive.
- The province reported 15,784 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 2.7 per cent positivity rate.
- There are 6,085 tests still awaiting processing, and the provincial labs have processed 16.8 million tests to date.
- Of the new cases reported today, 128 are from Toronto, 83 cases are from Peel, 18 are from Simcoe-Muskoka, four are from Grey-Bruce, and 66 are from York Region.
- Today's cases include 52 individuals under 12 years old, 54 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 268 people between 20 and 39 years old, 107 people between 40 and 59 years old, 35 people between 60 and 79 years old, and nine people over 79 years old.
Vaccination status
The vaccination breakdown for new cases is as follows:
- New cases include 353 unvaccinated, 60 partially vaccinated, and 113 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:
- 26,033 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday.
- 20,213,876 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 9,583,506 people have been fully vaccinated.
- 63.6 per cent of the total population of Ontario has received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Total case counts and rates
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 554,472 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 541,946 recoveries and 9,416 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 3,774.2 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average weekly incidence rate is 19.8 cases per 100,000 people, which is up by 65 per cent from the week of July 31.
York Region
York Region Public Health will provide its next update later today, at 5 p.m. Aug. 16.
The latest update, on Friday, Aug. 13, includes 23 active cases in Newmarket and 319 active cases in York Region, with a rising incidence rate of 22 cases per 100,000 population.
