Ottawa, Nov 29, : , Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, has reported 964 new Covid-19 patients, the highest single-day number since May 30. On Sunday, Ontario had 964 and 854 cases respectively of the novel coronavirus.
Sunday’s reported number brought the average seven-day number of Covid-19 cases in the province up to 760 That number was 645 at the end of last week.
On Sunday, 498 cases were found in unvaccinated people, 396 in fully vaccinated persons, and 21 cases were found in partially vaccinated people.
According to Xinhua news agency, the vaccination status of the remaining 49 patients is unknown.
Ontario has processed 29692 Covid-19 test results in the past 24 hours, bringing the positive rate to 3.2 percent.
There were 122 people who were hospitalized with Covid-19, and 135 were in ICU.However, the hospitalized were not given vaccination information.
Ontario had 617,015 confirmed cases of Covid-19 since February 2020 when the pandemic began.This included 600,537 recoveries, and 9,994 deaths.Canada had reported a total of 1,784,354 Covid-19 deaths, which included 29,628 cases.
According to the Ontario government, almost 89.6 percent of Ontarians over 12 years old had received one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, while 86.3 percent had two.
Although there is a push to expand Covid-19 vaccine boosters in Canada, epidemiologists say there is no evidence that there is an urgent need for more shots.This is due to the ongoing, strong protection provided by the two doses.
However, with the rapid approaching Christmas holidays and the emergence in the world of the more contagious Omicron variant, Covid-19 levels are still high in many parts of the country.
Some territories and provinces have expanded access to boosters, while others have chosen to limit their availability to healthcare workers and those most at risk.
Experts in medicine are divided on the need to expand access for more Canadians to shots.
The emergence of Omicron will likely intensify the debate until more information is available.
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