Ontario is reporting 1,185 new laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases Saturday and 16 related deaths.
The Greater Toronto Area remains a provincial hotspot, with 331 new cases identified in Toronto Saturday and 220 new cases in Peel. Both regions remain under lockdown orders.
York region reported 119 new cases.
There were 67 new cases in Ottawa, according to provincial data.
There are often discrepancies between Ontario’s daily case counts and those logged by local public health units while the province is completing its data migration to a central system. Ottawa Public Health is using its own system in the meantime, which pulls local data each afternoon and reports the numbers around 12:30 p.m. the following day. OPH says its data is typically the most up-to-date.
In surrounding regions, the Eastern Ontario public health unit reported seven new cases Saturday, a day after 11 new infections were confirmed in the area on Friday.
There were five new cases in Hastings, one in Kingston and three in Renfrew County.
Renfrew saw its largest single-day spike in cases with 10 confirmed infections on Friday, prompting a stern warning from acting medical officer of health Dr. Robert Cushman.
No new cases were found in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark.
Ontario completed 59,416 COVID-19 tests in the previous 24 hours with a 2.1 per cent positivity rate, which has been trending down in recent weeks.
There are 680 patients in Ontario hospitals, 276 in intensive care and, of those, 182 require a ventilator.
Those rates of severe cases have remained relatively constant recently after steady declines through early February.
On the vaccination front, another 24,339 vaccine doses were administered Friday, and as of 8 p.m., a total of 668,104 doses had been administered, with 260,972 Ontarians fully immunized with both doses.
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