***Editor's note: The health department points out that due to changes in testing availability, case counts on its dashboard are an underestimate of the true number of individuals with COVID-19 in Waterloo Region. Vaccine data is updated on Thursdays***
There's been a slight improvement when it comes to local COVID patients in hospital.
54 patients are in hospital, which is two less than what was reported on the region's dashboard on Tuesday. The number of patients in intensive care has declined by one to six.
Region of Waterloo Public Health also reported 115 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. It raises the local total to 43,697. The resolved case rate is 96.3 per cent.
No new deaths were reported. The local death toll is 403.
The active caseload is up to 1,186.
In terms of variants of concern, the region's dashboard shows 449 of those cases (92.4 per cent) have been linked to the Omicron variant since March 6.
85.9 per cent of residents five and over in Waterloo Region are now fully vaccinated. Over 1.30 million doses have been administered to local residents, including over 293,000 third doses. 50.8 per cent of those 12 and over have received a third dose.
54.8 per cent of children between 5 and 11 have received at least one dose. 39.7 are fully vaccinated.
There are 24 outbreaks in the region. You can find the complete list of outbreaks on the region's dashboard.
Meanwhile, the province reported 3,833 new cases Wednesday.
The rest of the provincial COVID-19 totals are posted below:
- 87 per cent of those 5 and over have been fully vaccinated
- 1,332 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, down from 1,366 reported yesterday. 182 people are in ICU because of COVID-related critical illness, which is down from 190 reported yesterday.
- 1,204,452 total cases
- 1,159,671 resolved cases
- 12,583 deaths (12 new)
