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Ontario is reporting 870 new cases of COVID-19 and 10 more deaths on June 3, an increase after two straight days of daily infections closer to the 700 mark.
The province confirmed 733 cases on Wednesday, 699 on Tuesday, 915 on Monday, 1,033 on Sunday, 1,057 on Saturday and 1,273 on Friday. The seven-day average has dropped to 940, down from 1,441 last Thursday.
“Locally, there are 225 new cases in Toronto, 167 in Peel and 49 in the Porcupine Health Unit region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.
Porcupine – which covers Timmins – is reporting the fourth-highest single-day increase in the province today. The region’s COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 people is now 58 compared with eight in Toronto and 12 in Peel.
Labs completed just over 34,200 tests in the past day and the positivity rate remained flat at 2.8 per cent, but is still down from 3.6 per cent a week ago, according to Ministry of Health data.
Overall hospitalizations rose by 21 to 729. There are now 546 patients in intensive care units, a decline of 30 since yesterday. Of those people, 370 – or 67.8 per cent – are breathing with the help of a ventilator.
With 1,563 recoveries in the past day, the total number of confirmed active COVID-19 cases in Ontario is now 9,961 – the first time that number has dropped below 10,000 since November.
The 10 deaths in the past day have brought Ontario’s death toll to 8,801.
Yesterday, Peel Region’s Medical Officer of Health Lawrence Loh told reporters he expects the fast-transmitting Delta variant – or B.1.617.2 – to become the dominant strain of the virus in that region in one month and in the rest of the province “weeks behind.”
Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Table reports that the Delta variant now makes up 23 per cent of cases in the province.
As of 8 pm last night, Ontario had administered 9,493,005 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. To date, Toronto has administered 2,242,860 doses. The city and health-care partners plan to run approximately 43 clinics today.
New COVID-19 cases in Ontario on June 3
The following regions reported five or more new COVID-19 cases:
Toronto = 225
Peel Region = 167
Niagara Region = 55
Porcupine = 49
Hamilton = 45
Durham Region = 44
Ottawa = 43
Region of Waterloo = 37
Simcoe Muskoka = 33
York Region = 28
Middlesex-London = 22
Halton Region = 18
Windsor-Essex = 17
Brant County = 14
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph = 29
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge = 8
Peterborough = 7
