JUST IN: Ontario reports 508 new COVID-19 infections as province expands booster shot eligibility
Provincial health officials logged 508 new coronavirus infections today, down from 563 yesterday but up from 356 a week ago.Earlier this week, officials reported 331 new infections on Tuesday, 378 on Wednesday and 438 on Thursday.The Ministry of Health reported three more virus-related deaths today that occured in the last month.The province’s virus-related death toll stands at 9,896.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 115 of the ICU patients are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status and 15 are fully vaccinated. On Saturday, the government expanded eligibility for third doses of COVID-19 vaccines to nearly three million more Ontarians, including people 70 years and older, health-care workers or essential caregivers in congregate settings, people who received two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine or one dose of Janssen, and Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous household members.
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