Ontario reports 552 new cases of COVID-19 Monday

Ontario is reporting 552 new COVID-19 cases Monday and three more deaths related to the virus.

Health Minister Christine Elliott says 340 of the infected people are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status. She says 212 of the cases are in fully vaccinated people.

The data is based on 21,475 tests completed on the previous day.

The province says 7,251 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the last 24-hour period for a total of more than 22.7 million.

Elliott says 88.7 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 and older have received one dose and 85.5 per cent have two doses.

The province says there are 141 patients in intensive care with COVID-related critical illnesses and 79 on ventilators.

At least one of the province’s 626 long-term care homes currently has a COVID-19 outbreak declared at the facility.

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