Local and Provincial COVID-19 numbers as of Monday, April 12
Province updates its numbers daily except holidays, the SMDHU does so Monday to Friday
Your main takeaway today:
–Hospitalizations and ICD admissions continue to climb
Provincial COVID-19 numbers as per Public Health Ontario, updated daily by 11 a.m.
- New cases reported Monday: 4,401 (391,009 to date)
- New recoveries reported Monday: 2,445 (348,684 to date)
- New deaths reported Monday: 15 (7,567 to date)
- Number of patients hospitalized as of Monday: 1,646
- Number of patients in ICU as of Monday: 619 (395 on a ventilator)
- Vaccine doses administered by Sunday at 8 p.m.: 74,722 (3,214,465 total doses administered, 333,419 people fully vaccinated)
- Number of new tests processed by Sunday: 47,929
- Percent positivity: 9.5 per cent
Local COVID-19 numbers as per the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, updated Monday to Friday by 3 p.m.
- Number of new cases reported Friday: 100 (8,418 to date)
- Number of variant-of-concern* (VOC) cases reported Friday: 92 (There are 1,245 cases to date that have tested positive for a VOC, there are 405 tests that have screened positive and awaiting confirmatory testing)
- Number of active COVID-19 cases as of Friday: 771
- Number of active and screened VOC cases: 379
- Number of new recoveries Friday: 39 (7,331 to date)
- Number of deaths reported Friday: 1 (208 to date)
- Number of people currently hospitalized due to COVID-19: 38
- Number of vaccines administered by Thursday at 8 p.m.: 2,027 (116,464 to date)
*Variants of concern are derived from prior positive COVID-19 tests; the health unit rescreens prior positive test samples for a VOC, thus VOCs are not on top of new COVID-19 cases but a subset of them.
- Tests run in Simcoe County last week: 222 per 100,000 people
- Tests run in Muskoka District last week: 98 per 100,000 people
- Percent positivity^: 4.8 percent
^Percent positivity is the percentage of positive tests among all tests run, and the goal is to get that number below 1.0 percent.