COVID-19: Nearly 10,000 new cases across the province

We’re waiting on the COVID-19 numbers for Milton and Halton.

NOTE: COVID stats for Milton and Halton will not be updated between Saturday, December 25th – Tuesday, December 28th. Those stats will be included in Wednesday’s update – which is guaranteed to be a shockingly high number.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including 9571 new cases province-wide. There have been 676,924 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to December 23, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	676,924	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	9,571	1.4% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	626,798	92.6
Change from previous report	1,997	0.3% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	15,739	2.3
Subset of all cases that are reported as a health care worker^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}associated with long-term care outbreaks	7,462	1.1
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	10,146	1.5
New deaths reported	6	<0.1% increase
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	4,032	39.7
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for health care workers^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}^{footnote 2[2]}in long-term care homes	10	0.1

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to December 23, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	338,489
Female	335,967
0-4	20,034
5-11	42,322
12-19	60,609
20-39	254,362
40-59	187,110
60-79	85,055
80 and over	27,308

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to December 23, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 8[8]}	20,827,410
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 9[9]}	72,639
Currently under investigation^{footnote 10[10]}	67,571

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to December 23, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 11[11]}	508
Total patients in ICU due to COVID-related critical illness^{footnote 12[12]}^{footnote 13[13]}	164
Number of patients currently in ICU, testing positive for COVID^{footnote 12[12]}	154
Number of patients currently in ICU due to COVID, no longer testing positive for COVID^{footnote 12[12]}	10
Total patients in ICU on a ventilator due to COVID-related critical illness^{footnote 12[12]}^{footnote 14[14]}	102
Number of patients currently in ICU on a ventilator with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	97
Patients in ICU due to COVID on a ventilator, no longer testing positive for COVID^{footnote 12[12]}	5

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