Public Health Ontario has reported 258 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (July 31).
Today's update also includes 137 new recoveries and 6 deaths.
The July 31 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 1,606 active cases, up from 1,491 yesterday.
- 105 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 108 yesterday.
- There are 112 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (29 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 83 patients on ventilators (18 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 19,112 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 5,546 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 16.5 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 145,538 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,493 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 5,161 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 4,741 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 38,435cases have screened positive with a mutation detected, but the lineage for the variant strain not yet detected.
- According to Public Health Ontario, there are delays between specimen collection and the testing required to confirm a variant of concern. As such, the reports can change and can differ from past case counts publicly reported.
Vaccines
- There were 81,590 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, down from 83,907 on July 29.
- 19,459,198 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 8,985,638 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 547,149 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 539,485 recoveries and 9,345 deaths, 3,980 of those in long-term care homes.
