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Ontario reported 200 new cases of COVID-19 and 284 new cases Thursday.
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There were also nine deaths reported on Friday, and 19 the previous day.
The province did not release data during Thursday’s Canada Day holiday.
Waterloo, with 41 new cases reported Friday, Toronto, with 23, and Peel, with 21, remain the province’s worst-hit regions.
There were five new confirmed cases in Ottawa, according to Public Health Ontario, bringing the city’s total to 27,662 since the pandemic’s start. Due to different data-collection times, those figures may not match those issued later in the day by Ottawa Public Health.
In other health units in the region, Leeds, Grenville and Lanark reported one new case, as did Renfrew County, while Kingston confirmed three new cases. Eastern Ontario Health Unit saw its confirmed case numbers go up by two.
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The previous day saw one new case in Leeds and none in Eastern Ontario, Kingston and Renfrew County.
The new figures raise Ontario’s total number of COVID cases since January 2020 to 545,381 and its death toll to 9,196. There are 11,452 active cases in the province.
There are 179 COVID patients currently in Ontario hospitals, although about 10 per cent of hospitals did not submit daily bed census figures. There are 252 patients in ICU with COVID-related illnesses, 160 of them on ventilators.
Additionally, 145,674 vaccine doses were administered in the province in the 24-hour period ending Thursday evening, for a province-wide total of 15,154,499. The number of Ontarians who have been fully vaccinated increased by 134,729, to 5,185,939.
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Children and youths aged 12-17 will be eligible to book an accelerated appointment for second doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Monday at 8 a.m.
The bookings for the Pfizer vaccination can be made through the provincial booking system, through public health units that use their own booking system, or through participating pharmacies.
Eligible groups can use Ontario’s vaccine booking system, at https://covid-19.ontario.ca/covidvaccine, to find out how to schedule an appointment, or can call the Provincial Vaccine Booking Line number at 1-833-943-3900. For general inquiries, individuals can call the Provincial Vaccine Information Line number at 1-888-999-6488 or TTY service is also available by calling 1-866-797-0007.
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Latest COVID-19 news for Ottawa
With the number of COVID-19 cases falling in Ottawa, the Heron Road testing centre is now closed. The clinic, operated by the Montfort Hospital, opened almost 15 months ago, in April 2020.
The care and testing centres at the Ray Friel Centre, at Brewer Park Arena and on Moodie Drive remain open.
In a tweet issued Friday, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson announced that 80 per cent of Ottawa residents aged 18 and over have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“Even on a stat holiday we aren’t slowing down,” the mayor wrote. “Thank you to all the staff who worked through the day yesterday to deliver vaccines!
“Let’s keep this momentum going, Ottawa!”
Latest COVID-19 news in Quebec
Quebec reported 69 new cases Friday, with 93 the previous day for a two-day total of 163.
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There were seven new deaths reported for the two-day period.
As of Friday, there were 110 people in hospital, a drop of three cases and no new cases in ICU, where there are 34 patients.
In the Outaouais, there were five new cases during the two-day period, with two new deaths, bringing the regional toll to 216.
There were 96,567 doses of vaccine administered across the province over the two days, for a pandemic total of 10,993,905 doses.
Meanwhile, the presence of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in the Outaouais was confirmed on Friday, with four cases reported in the region.
According to the Outaouais Integrated Health and Social Services Centre, none of the cases was linked to an outbreak, and all four were investigated, and each person has completed their isolation.
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Latest COVID-19 news in Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at an Ottawa pharmacy Friday.
The prime minister got a shot of Moderna, following his first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca earlier this year.
He received his vaccine at a Rexall pharmacy in Ottawa where he told the pharmacist he was “very excited” to get his second dose.
Trudeau told her he had a tough night of slight chills and fevers after his first dose, and she warned it would be a little worse this time.
He said he knows, because his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau got her second dose yesterday and had a rough sleep.
The pharmacist injected the vaccine into his left arm near his Indigenous tattoo.
COVID-19: Ontario reports two-day total of 484 new cases; Accelerated vaccine bookings for youths to begin Monday - Ottawa Citizen
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