Over 40,000 people in the Porcupine Health Unit are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Porcupine Health Unit's weekly epidemiology report is out and breaks down where the region is at.
As of July 26, there have now been 1,123 cases in the region where a variant of concern has been detected.
Since last week's report, 1,370 more people have been fully vaccinated, bringing the total number of people with both doses of the vaccine to 40,544. According to Stats Canada, in 2016 the population of the health unit region was 84,201.
There has been an increase of 313 people who received their first dose, bringing the total number of people who have received their first dose of the vaccine to 49,203. There have been 89,747 doses of the vaccine administered.
When the numbers were pulled for the report on July 26, there had been 2,141 confirmed cases of the virus, an increase of 16 from last week’s update.
Of the confirmed cases, 51.7 per cent are male and 48.1 per cent are female.
People 20 to 39 years make up the largest number of cases, with 764 people (35.7 per cent of all cases) being in that demographic. There have been 709 cases (33.1 per cent) in people ages 19 and under, 426 people (19.8 per cent of cases) between the ages of 40-59, 184 people (8.6 per cent) are between the ages of 60-79, and 58 people (2.7 per cent) are 80 and over.
For where people are located, 986 cases have been in Timmins; 260 in the area Matheson, Iroquois Falls, Cochrane and Smooth Rock Falls; 104 in the Kapuskasing area; 98 in the Hearst, Hornepayne area; 684 in the James and Hudson Bay region; and nine are out of region.
Of the confirmed cases, 1,288 (60.2 per cent) were contacts of a case, the exposure of 75 (3.5 per cent) is under investigation, there is no known exposure for 490 (22.9 per cent), 269 (12.6 per cent) are associated to an outbreak, and 19 cases are travel-related.
The case fatality rate in the Porcupine Health Unit region is 1.4 per cent. The provincial rate is 1.7 per cent.
The test positivity rate for the region at the time of the report was 1.8 per cent. In Northern Ontario the positivity rate, according to the report, is 1 per cent and the provincial rate is 3.3 per cent.
This week's full local epidemiology report is available here.
