Ontario is reporting 1,022 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 280,494.
Tuesday’s case count is lower than Monday’s which saw 1,265 new infections. On Sunday, 1,484 new cases were recorded and 1,388 on Saturday.
“Locally, there are 343 new cases in Toronto, 250 in Peel and 128 in York Region,” Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said.
The death toll in the province has risen to 6,555, as 17 more deaths were reported.
Meanwhile, 259,991 Ontarians were reported to have recovered from COVID-19, which is 92 per cent of known cases. Resolved cases increased by 1,388 from the previous day.
There were more resolved cases than new cases on Tuesday.
Active cases in Ontario now stand at 13,948 — down from the previous day when it was 14,331, and down from last Tuesday at 17,451.
Ontario reported 909 people hospitalized with COVID-19 (up by eight from the previous day), with 318 patients in an intensive care unit (down by 17) and 223 patients in ICUs on a ventilator (down by three).
The government said 30,798 tests were processed in the last 24 hours. There is currently a backlog of 33,273 tests awaiting results. A total of 10,085,123 tests have been completed since the start of the pandemic.
As of 8 p.m. Monday, the province has administered 398,633 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 12,462 in the last day. There are 115,529 people fully vaccinated with two doses. Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the only vaccines currently approved in Canada, require two shots.