***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***
A new COVID-related death was confirmed in the region on Tuesday. It raises the local death toll to 403.
It's the first local death to be reported since March 30.
The number of patients in hospital with COVID has risen by five to 56. Seven patients remain in intensive care.
Region of Waterloo Public Health also confirmed 131 new cases, putting the overall total at 43,582. The resolved case rate is 96.3 per cent.
The active caseload is up to 1,170.
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 25 outbreaks in the region. You can find the complete list of outbreaks on the region's dashboard.
Meanwhile, the province reported 2,300 new cases Tuesday.
The rest of the provincial COVID-19 totals are posted below:
- 87 per cent of those 5 and over have been fully vaccinated
- 1,366 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, up from 1,090 reported yesterday. 190 people are in ICU because of COVID-related critical illness, which is up from 184 reported yesterday.
- 1,200,619 total cases
- 1,156,332 resolved cases
- 12,570 deaths (5 new)
