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Ontario reports 324 new COVID-19 cases, 108 patients in hospital

Ontario is reporting 324 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday and three new deaths.
The province says 234 of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals, 32 are partially vaccinated and 58 in fully vaccinated people.
The data is based on 24,772 tests completed.
There are currently 108 patients in intensive care with COVID-related critical illness and 70 on ventilators.
Of those in hospital, 32 are unvaccinated, 37 are partially vaccinated and six are fully vaccinated.
The province says 48,307 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered Tuesday for a total of nearly 20 million.
Of the province’s 626 long-term care homes, at least three are in an outbreak including The Village of Tansley Woods in Burlington.
An active COVID-19 outbreak indicates that the home has at least one lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 (in resident or staff) and the local public health unit or the home has declared an outbreak.
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region:
Hamilton
- 21,904 total cases – up 38 from previous
- 20,786 resolved cases
- 209 active cases
- 404 deaths
- 20 in hospital
Niagara Region
- 16,388 total cases – up 8 from previous
- 15,915 resolved cases
- 53 active cases
- 420 deaths
- 0 in hospital
Halton Region
Halton Region data last updated on Aug. 10
- 18,311 total cases
- 17,997 resolved cases
- 77 active cases
- 237 deaths
- 5 in hospital
Brant
- 3,467 total cases – up 2 from previous
- 3,427 resolved cases
- 20 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 4 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,755 total cases – up 2 from previous
- 2,684 resolved cases
- 17 active cases
- 48 deaths