Ontario reported fewer than 500 new COVID-19 cases for a second day in a row and eight more deaths on Wednesday.
Provincial health officials logged 495 new infections today, up slightly from 466 on Tuesday and 463 a week ago.
Of the latest cases, 302 of the individuals are unvaccinated, 36 are partially vaccinated, 115 are fully vaccinated and 42 have an unknown vaccination status.
About 30 per cent of Ontarians are unvaccinated, including children under 12 years old who are not yet eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Ontario reported 613 new cases on Monday, 653 on Sunday and 640 on Saturday.
The seven-day rolling average now stands at 610, compared to 692 a week ago.
Another 760 people recovered from the disease in the past 24 hours, resulting in 4,989 active cases across the province.
The Ministry of Health reported eight more deaths today, all of which occurred in the last month.
The province’s virus-related death toll since March 2020 stands at 9,723.
Provincial labs processed more than 36,400 tests in the past 24 hours, resulting in a positivity rate of 1.7 per cent, relatively unchanged from a week ago, according to the ministry.
Among the latest cases, 84 are children between zero and 11 years old, 40 are individuals between 12 and 19 years old, 191 are between 20 and 39 years old, 133 are between 40 and 59, 44 are between 60 and 79 and four are 80 and older.
Meanwhile, 170 school-related coronavirus cases were reported by the province today. There are 4,844 public schools across Ontario.
In the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto logged 107 new cases, while 33 were reported in Peel Region, 35 in York Region, 20 in Halton and 10 in Durham.
Meanwhile, 39 new cases were reported in both Ottawa and Hamilton and 33 cases were logged in Windsor-Essex.
There are currently 292 patients in Ontario hospitals with the disease and 172 are in intensive care units.
Of those in ICUs, Health Minister Christine Elliott says 164 are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status and eight are fully vaccinated.
To date, there have been 585,502 lab-confirmed coronavirus cases and 570,790 recoveries since Jan. 2020.
So far, 86 per cent of Ontarians 12 years and older have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 80 per cent have received two doses and are considered fully vaccinated.
The numbers used in this story are found in the Ontario Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from what is reported by the province, because local units report figures at different times.
