Ontario reports 761 schools with COVID cases, 7 LTC homes now in outbreak

Ontario is reporting another 959 COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths, according to its latest report released Thursday morning.

The province has not updated the number of vaccine doses administered and the number of vaccines given in total at the time of publishing. Vaccine data from Nov. 30 is the most recent information from the province at this time.

The province now includes data that reflects hospitalizations and cases by vaccination status. Ontario warns that the new process may cause discrepancies between other hospitalization numbers being collected using a different process, and that the data may not match daily COVID-19 case counts.

The province reports 446 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 23 were partially vaccinated, and 429 cases in fully vaccinated people. Again, the province warns the data may not match daily COVID case counts because records with a missing or invalid health card number can’t be linked.

The province says that data on hospitalizations by vaccination status won’t be updated on Sundays and Mondays due to incomplete weekend reporting.

The province is also including data on COVID-19 in schools as part of its daily reporting.

There are 761 schools with a reported case of COVID out of 4,844 schools in the province, or 15.71 per cent.

There are 164 new cases reported Thursday for a total of 7,922 reported school-related COVID cases in Ontario.

The province says 10 schools have closed due to outbreaks or operational considerations. It does not include regional closures in a local public health unit area.

To find out if there are COVID cases at your child’s school, use the Star’s tracker tool to search.

The seven-day average is at 851 cases daily.

The province says 38,480 tests were completed the previous day, and a 2.9 per cent positivity rate.

There are 291 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 139 patients in intensive care testing positive for COVID-19. There are 85 people on ventilators.

Locally, Ontario reports 118 new cases in Toronto, 91 in Windsor-Essex, 75 in Peel Region, 59 in Ottawa, 53 in York Region and 42 in Halton Region.

Meanwhile, the province is reporting that there are no new deaths in long-term-care so the number of residents who have died stays the same at 3,824, in the latest report released by the province.

Ontario is reporting three more long-term-care homes in outbreak, for a total of seven or 1.1 per cent of LTC homes in the province.

This data is self-reported by the long-term-care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. Daily case and death figures may not immediately match the numbers posted by the local public health units due to lags in reporting time.