Public Health Ontario has reported 346 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report (June 26).
Today's update also includes 503 new recoveries and 13 deaths.
The June 26 update provided by the province's public health agency also reported the following data:
- 2,729 active cases, down from 2,899 yesterday.
- 273 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, down from 275 yesterday.
- There are 286 patients in intensive care units because of COVID-19 (59 of those people no longer test positive for COVID-19) and 183 patients on ventilators (26 of those patients no longer test positive for COVID-19).
- The province reported 25,626 tests were processed yesterday.
- Another 8,950 tests are still under investigation and/or being processed. To date, 15.8 million tests have been completed.
Variants of concern (Ontario-wide)
- 143,150 lab-confirmed cases of the UK variant strain of COVID-19 (B.1.1.7/Alpha variant).
- 1,195 cases of B.1.351 (also known as the South African variant/Beta variant).
- 4,385 cases of P.1, which is the variant strain that originated in Brazil (Gamma variant).
- 1,126 cases of B.1.617.2 (also known as the Delta variant).
- Another 36,326 cases 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 256,260 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 administered yesterday, up from 246,393 on June 25.
- 13,824,469 doses of vaccine have been administered.
- In total, 3,988,105 people have been fully vaccinated.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 543,917 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 532,074 recoveries and 9,114 deaths, 3,967 of those in long-term care homes.
