FOG BLOG COVID 19 LOG: ONTARIO HAS ALMOST 33OO CASES TODAY, LOCK DOWN ORDER STARTS !

Ontario sees 3,295 new COVID-19 cases, record-high vaccinations as stay-at-home order kicks in...Ontario reported another 3,295 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as public health units administered a record-high 108,563 doses of vaccine and a renewed provincewide stay-at-home order went into effect.

A total of 326,360 people in the province have received both shots of vaccine, according to the Ministry of Health.

As of Wednesday evening, Ontario had administered just over 70 per cent of the 4,031,325 doses it has received from the federal government to date. More than a million of those total doses arrived last weekend.

Nine public health units confirmed triple-digit increases in COVID-19 cases: 933 in Toronto, 649 in Peel Region, 386 in York Region, 165 in Durham Region, 156 in Halton Region, 160 in Ottawa, 125 in Middlesex-London, 124 in Simcoe Muskoka and 110 in Niagara Region.

The infections come as labs completed 63,846 tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and logged a positivity rate of six per cent.

The seven-day average of new daily cases grew to 3,093. It was last above 3,000 on Jan. 18.