Ontario reported more than 350 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths on Saturday.
Provincial health officials logged 356 new coronavirus infections today, down from 419 yesterday and from 373 a week ago.
Earlier this week the province reported 269 new cases on Tuesday, 321 on Wednesday and 409 on Thursday.
The seven-day rolling average now stands at 353, down from 389 a week ago.
Among the latest cases, 195 individuals are unvaccinated, 13 are partially vaccinated, 126 are fully vaccinated and 22 have an unknown vaccination status.
So far, 88 per cent of eligible Ontarians have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 84 per cent have received two doses and are considered fully vaccinated.
Children under 12 years old are not yet eligible for a vaccine.
Another 340 people recovered from the disease in the past 24 hours, resulting in 3,050 active cases across Ontario.
The four deaths reported today occurred in the last month, according to the Ministry of Health.
The province's virus-related death toll now stands at 9,869.
Ontario labs processed over 26,700 tests yesterday, producing a positivity rate of 1.4 per cent, a slight decrease from 1.5 per cent a week ago, the ministry says.
In the Greater Toronto Area, 45 new cases were logged in Toronto, 32 in Peel Region, 24 in York, 14 in Halton and seven in Durham.
Elsewhere, 34 new infections were reported in Sudbury, 28 in Simcoe Muskoka and 18 in Ottawa.
There are 213 people with the virus in hospitals across the province and 132 in intensive care units, the ministry says.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 119 of the ICU patients are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status and 13 are fully vaccinated.
To date, there have been over 599,600 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases and 586,696 recoveries since Jan. 2020.
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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