London-area residents can now find out the vaccination status of locals who tested positive for COVID-19.
The Middlesex London Health Unit began including the data on its COVID-19 dashboard as of Tuesday. Of the 260 people who have contracted the virus over the past six weeks, 175 or 67.3 per cent were not vaccinated, 70 or 26.9 per cent were partially vaccinated, and 11 or 4.2 per cent were fully vaccinated. Another four or 1.5 percent had the shot but it had not yet begun offering protection.
Nobody who was fully vaccinated required hospitalization and all of the seven people who died from COVID-19 during the six-week time frame had not received a single dose of the vaccine.
Check this out! #MLHU’s data dashboard now features the vaccination status of people who tested positive for COVID. #LdnOnt #Middlesex /1
— MLHealthUnit (@MLHealthUnit) July 27, 2021
In the past 6 weeks:
➡️ 67% (175/260) of people who tested positive were not vaccinated
➡️ Nobody who was fully vaccinated was hospitalized pic.twitter.com/yuGoSC6eLX
The addition of the vaccination status information comes as the health unit logged another eight new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. That is up from three on Monday and five on Sunday. Daily case counts have predominantly been in the single-digits throughout the month of July, only rising above ten new infections on five separate days.
The total number of cases locally since the pandemic began is now 12,752.
The area death toll is unchanged at 229, with no additional COVID-19 related deaths reported since July 15.
Recoveries are up by five to bring the total number of resolved cases to 12,473. There are currently 50 active cases.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) continues to deal with an outbreak on Victoria Hospital's adult inpatient mental health unit, where fewer than five people have tested positive for the virus. It is the first outbreak to be reported at the south London hospital since January. LHSC currently has eight inpatients with COVID-19 in its care, up from six on Monday. Fewer than five of those patients are listed in intensive care and fewer than five hospital workers have become sick.
Another seven cases have been identified as variants of concern for a total of 3,569. There are 3,379 variants of concern that have been confirmed as the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) strain and 110 have tested positive as the P.1. (Gamma) variant. The region has also had 74 cases of the B.1.617 (Delta) variant or a sublineage of it, and two cases of the B.1.351 (Beta) strain. There are 199 cases that have tested positive for a mutation.
As of Saturday, there have been 643,013 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in the region, which works out to 80.1 per cent of all area residents aged 12 and older having received at least one dose. The percentage of the local population to receive both doses is currently 62.8.
In Elgin and Oxford counties, there were two new cases reported Tuesday. That brings Southwestern Public Health’s total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 3,937. There has not been a COVID-19 related death in the region since July 14, leaving the death toll unchanged at 84. Resolved cases rose to 3,838 with 15 known active cases in the two counties remaining. Roughly 78.2 per cent of area residents aged 12 and older have had one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 59.7 per cent have received both doses. Pop-up, walk-in vaccination clinics are being held on Thursday at the Thamesford Library from 9 a.m. to noon and at the Embro Arena from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Ontario’s daily COVID-19 caseload remained below 130 for a second straight day.
Public health officials logged 129 new infections on Tuesday. That is a slight increase from 119 cases on Monday, but is lower than the 172 on Sunday, 176 on Saturday, and 190 on Friday.
Toronto had the province’s highest daily number of cases over the past 24 hours with 37, followed by Peel Region with 22, and Hamilton with 12.
Ontario’s total case count since the start of the pandemic now stands at 549,576.
The province has confirmed seven more cases of the B.1.1.7 variant first discovered in the U.K., known as Alpha, for a total of 145,412. The number of cases of the B.1.351 variant first associated with South Africa, known as Beta, is unchanged leaving the total at 1,492. There are no new cases involving the P.1. variant first found in Brazil, known as Gamma, for a steady total of 5,142. The total number of cases identified as the B.1.617 variant, Delta, which originated in India went up by five to 3,921.
There were five additional deaths reported Tuesday. The provincial death toll is now 9,321.
There are currently 125 people with COVID-19 being treated at Ontario hospitals, an increase of 29 since Monday. COVID-19 related admissions to the intensive care unit are down by four to 127 and there are 91 patients on ventilators.
The number of resolved cases rose by 158 to 538,860. There are currently 1,395 active cases of the virus in Ontario.
In the last 24 hour period, more than 13,600 COVID-19 tests were processed. That is up from the more than 11,900 the previous day and brings the province’s positivity rate to 1 per cent.
To date, the province has administered over 19.1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with more than 8.7 million people having received both shots required to be fully inoculated.