Public Health Ontario is reporting 4,177 new COVID cases today for Dec. 18.
The latest updates also include 1,210 recoveries and two deaths.
York Region Public Health does not update its dashboard on weekends.
The Dec. 19 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
- There are 20,847 active cases, up from 17,882 yesterday.
- 283 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19, down from 382 yesterday.
- More than 10 per cent of hospitals did not submit date to the Daily Bed Census, which could mean a potential rise in the number of hospitalized patients when the number of hospitals reporting increases.
- Today's update notes 905 of the new cases were unvaccinated individuals, 142 were partially vaccinated, and 2,977 were fully vaccinated. The vaccination status for 153 others is listed as unknown.
- 159 people are in ICU due to COVID-19. Of those, 146 people are testing positive and 13 are testing negative. There are 95 people in an intensive care unit (ICU) due to COVID on a ventilator.
- Due to incomplete data reporting on weekends, vaccination status data for hospital and ICU admissions is not updated on Sunday's.
- 11.3 million people in Ontario are fully vaccinated, and five per cent of the province has one dose of COVID vaccine.
- 1.7 million people have received a booster (third dose) since August 2021.
- The province reported 51,151 tests were processed yesterday, resulting in an 8.7 per cent positivity rate.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 649,943 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 618,983 recoveries and 10,113 deaths.
For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.
