Public Health Ontario is reporting a record 13,807 new COVID cases today, however, that total is likely an underestimate according to the province.
A disclaimer on the latest update noted increasing COVID case counts driven by omicron have made testing less available, and it has led to the daily totals being an underestimation of actual infections in Ontario.
The latest updates also include 4,037 recoveries and eight deaths.
The Dec. 30 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
- There are 86,754 active cases, up from 76,992 yesterday.
- 965 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19.
- Vaccination status for new cases and hospitalizations was not updated at publication time.
- The seven-day average by vaccination status indicated 49.9 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 52.43 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 63.92 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people.
- 200 people are in ICU due to COVID-19. Of those, 186 people are testing positive and 14 are testing negative. There are 104 people in an intensive care unit (ICU) due to COVID on a ventilator.
- 11.4 million people in Ontario (77 per cent of the population) are fully vaccinated, and five per cent of the province has one dose of COVID vaccine.
- 3.2 million people in Ontario have received a third dose of COVID vaccine.
- The province reported 67,301 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in a 30.5 per cent positivity rate, the highest ever recorded during the pandemic.
- Among the new cases reported today, 441 were from Simcoe-Muskoka, 1,224 were from York Region, 3,478 were from Toronto, 126 were from Grey-Bruce, and 1,468 were from Peel.
- Today's new cases include 415 children under five, 979 kids ages five to 11 years old, 1,393 youth between 12 and 19 years old, 5,832 people between 20 and 39 years old, 3,820 people between 40 and 59 years old, 1,151 people between 60 and 79 years old, and 217 people over 80 years old.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 739,648 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 642,715 recoveries and 10,179 deaths.
The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 5,020 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.
Ontario's average seven-day incidence rate from Dec. 19 to Dec. 25 was 382.2 cases per 100,000 people, which increased 136.1 per cent over the seven-day period starting on Dec. 14.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
