Ontario reports 1,053 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday
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Ontario reported another 1,053 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. That's the highest daily case count in half a year and the second day in a row where Ontario's case count has topped 1,000.
Here are some other key pandemic indicators and figures from the Ministry of Health's daily provincial update:
Tests completed: 36,268.
Provincewide test positivity rate: 3.5 per cent.
Active cases: 7,540.
Patients in ICU with COVID-related illnesses: 160; 98 needed a ventilator to breathe.
Deaths: Eight, pushing the official toll to 10,024.
Vaccinations: 80,989 doses were administered, bringing the total doses administered to date up to 23,913,372. Currently, 90 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 years or older have received one dose of a vaccine, while 87.3 per cent have received two.
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