Public Health Ontario reported 552 new COVID cases today.
The latest updates noted 342 recoveries and three new deaths.
The Nov. 15 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
- 4,985 active cases, up from 4,778 reported yesterday.
- 138 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, but this number is underestimated as more than 10 per cent of Ontario hospitals did not submit to the daily bed census yesterday.
- There are 113 COVID-positive patients in the ICU plus another 28 patients no longer testing positive for COVID-19.
- There are 66 COVID-positive patients on ventilators and another 13 patients on ventilators no longer testing positive for COVID.
- 11,152,122 Ontarians (about 75 per cent of the total population) have been fully vaccinated. 88 per cent of eligible Ontarians have at least one dose of vaccine.
- Included in today's new cases are 286 unvaccinated, 23 partially vaccinated, and 212 fully vaccinated people. 31 cases were reported with vaccination status unknown.
- The vaccination status of those hospitalized is not updated on Sunday or Monday.
- The seven-day average incidence rate by vaccination status is 8.7 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 4.1 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 2.1 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
- The province reported 21,475 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 2.2 per cent positivity rate.
- Of the new cases reported today, 85 are from Toronto, 51 are from Peel, 44 are from Simcoe-Muskoka, and 49 are from York Region.
- Today's new cases include 117 individuals under 12 years old, 50 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 161 people between 20 and 39 years old, 149 people between 40 and 59 years old, 59 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 15 people over 79 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 607,725 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 592,803 recoveries and 9,937 deaths.
Since the start of the pandemic, 30,908 people have been hospitalized with COVID and 6,077 of them were in intensive care units.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 4,124.6 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average weekly incidence rate last week was 26.4 cases per 100,000 people, which is up by 22.9 per cent compared to the week of Oct. 30.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 99 new COVID cases on Friday, which included new cases for Nov. 11 and 12.
As of Friday, there were 378 active cases in the region.
Seventeen people from Simcoe County and two from Muskoka District are hospitalized with COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 14,496 cases of COVID-19 with 13,849 of those cases recovered and 269 cases ending in death.
The region's weekly incidence rate is 48.5 cases per 100,000 for the week beginning Nov. 5, which is up by 24.4 per cent compared to the week beginning Oct. 30.
The Grey Bruce Health Unit weekly incidence rate is 13.1 cases per 100,000, which is down by 35.8 per cent compared to the week of Oct. 30.
