Public Health Ontario has reported 636 new COVID-19 cases in its report today for Nov. 7.
Today's update also includes 367 new recoveries and two deaths in the last month.
York Region Public Health does not provide weekend updates.
The Nov. 7 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- Of the new cases reported today, 325 were unvaccinated people, 15 were partially vaccinated, 248 were fully vaccinated, and 48 are listed as vaccination status unknown (missing health card information).
- 3,797 active cases, up from 3,530 yesterday.
- 93 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 203 yesterday. *note: not all hospitals report numbers on the weekend.
- There are 126 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (20 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 81 patients on ventilators (14 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 27,146 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 9,364 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 19 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 146,513 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,503 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 5,231 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 21,709 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 59,924 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 12,754 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from15,901 on Nov. 5.
- 22,606,903 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 11,078,003 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 603,231 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 589,533 recoveries and 9,898 deaths, 4,022 of those in long-term care homes.
