COVID-19: 1 death, 15 new cases reported in Waterloo Region

Waterloo Public Well being reported 15 new optimistic checks for the coronavirus on Tuesday, lifting the full variety of COVID-19 circumstances within the space to 201,147.

It additionally pushes up the rolling seven-day common variety of new every day circumstances to 17. Every week in the past that quantity was 12.7 so it has bounced again up over the previous seven days.

The primary COVID-19-related loss of life of November 2021 was additionally reported, lifting the loss of life toll within the space to 304.

“At the moment we’re reporting one loss of life in our group associated to COVID-19,” medical officer of well being Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang acknowledged.

“The person was a male in his 80s. I want to specific my deep sympathy to the household and family members of the person.”

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One other 22 folks have been cleared of the virus, lifting the full variety of resolved circumstances within the area to 19,709.

The variety of energetic circumstances has fallen again all the way down to 132 after sitting at 140 on Monday. This contains 9 people who find themselves in space hospitals, two of that are in intensive care.

The area can be again as much as eight energetic COVID-19 outbreaks after one was introduced at an undisclosed retail location.

Waterloo Public Well being stories that there have now been 896,536 vaccinations achieved within the space, which is 597 greater than have been introduced on Monday.

As well as, there have now been 445,165 residents who’re totally vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, which is 350 greater than have been reported on Monday.

Which means 75.6 per cent of space residents at the moment are totally vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, a quantity that climbs to 87.79 per cent when one reductions those that are ineligible to be vaccinated.

Ontario reported 331 new COVID-19 circumstances on Tuesday, a slight uptick from every week in the past. The provincial case whole now stands at 600,708.

For comparability, final Tuesday noticed 269 new circumstances and the earlier Tuesday noticed 328.

Of the 331 new circumstances recorded, the information confirmed 156 have been unvaccinated folks, 14 have been partially vaccinated folks, 136 have been totally vaccinated folks and for 25 folks the vaccination standing was unknown.

In accordance with Tuesday’s report, 44 circumstances have been recorded in York Area, 42 in Toronto, 36 in Peel Area, 23 in Ottawa, 22 in Simcoe Muskoka and 21 in Hamilton. All different native public well being items reported fewer than 20 new circumstances within the provincial report.

The loss of life toll within the province has risen to 9,881 as seven new deaths have been recorded.

 –With recordsdata from International Information’ Gabby Rodrigues

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