Ontario's active COVID-19 cases continue a downward trend today with 184 new cases and 218 recoveries reported.
According to the Public Health Ontario epidemiological report, there are 2,585 active cases of COVID-19 in the province.
This is the third day in a row and the fourth day out of the last five that the number of new cases has been below 200 cases. The province has not reported daily case increases this low since late March.
Public Health Ontario does, however, continue to report new deaths attributed to COVID-19 on a daily basis. In today's report, the public health agency reported 11 deaths, including one person between the ages of 40 and 59, three people between the ages of 60 and 79, and seven people over the age of 80.
The province has reported 2,538 deaths related to COVID-19 since March, and that includes 1,632 long-term care home residents.
However, the provincial report typically lags behind the reports released by the Ministry of Long-Term Care. The ministry has reported 1,794 deaths of residents in long-term care homes as a result of COVID-19.
There are currently 67 outbreaks at long-term care homes in Ontario with 458 active cases confirmed in residents and 471 active cases confirmed in staff.
To date, the province has reported 32,554 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, and indicates 27,431 cases are now considered recovered.
There are 413 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ontario, including 98 patients in intensive care units and 70 patients on ventilators.
There have been 21,724 COVID-19 tests processed since yesterday's provincial update.
There are 12 known active cases of the virus in Northern Ontario.
Today's provincial report includes data from Jan. 15 to June 15 and includes the rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population. Data included on resolved cases and last known confirmed is from each health unit's respective website. The breakdown for Northern Ontario health units is:
• Algoma Public Health - 23 cases, rate of 20.1 per 100,000 population. There are two active cases, and 21 resolved cases.
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit - 28 cases, rate of 21.6 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 30 cases. Of those, 28 are resolved and there has been one death. There is one known active case.
• Porcupine Health Unit - 65, rate of 77.9 per 100,000 population. The last confirmed case was May 10. Of the confirmed cases, 57 are resolved and eight people have died. There are no known active cases of the virus.
• Public Health Sudbury and Districts - 64 cases, rate of 32.2 per 100,000 population. The last positive test was reported May 14. Two people have died, and the rest of the known cases are resolved.
• Timiskaming Health Unit - 18 cases, rate of 55.1 per 100,000. The last positive tests were done April 28. All of the cases are resolved.
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit - 87 cases, rate of 58 per 100,000 population. There are 82 resolved cases and one person has died. There are four known active cases, all of which are hospitalized.
• Northwestern Health Unit - 27 cases, rate of 30.8 per 100,000 population. There are 22 resolved cases, and 5 known active cases.
The Ontario rate of infection per 100,000 population is 219.
