Health officials logged 324 more infections of COVID-19 Wednesday and most of the infections were recorded in people without a vaccine.
, 234 of the cases logged are in unvaccinated people. Thirty-two other cases were found in partially vaccinated people and 58 cases were logged in those who are fully vaccinated.
The province only began releasing the vaccination status of lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday after Ontario’s top doctorWednesday’s report brings the total number of cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the province to 553,449. With 24,772 swabs processed in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says that Ontario’s COVID-19 positivity rate stands at 1.7 per cent.
Another three deaths related to the disease were also confirmed in the previous day, bringing the province’s death toll to 9,412. At least 541,426 patients who previously tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered since the start of the pandemic.The numbers used in this story are found in the Ontario Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from what is reported by the province, because local units report figures at different times
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