Ontario is reporting 340 new COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths from the virus today, including several deaths that occurred more than six weeks ago.

       The province says 16 of the deaths, including one of a person under the age of 19, were reported for the first time on Friday due to data cleaning work.

       The case numbers are based on 23,448 tests.

       There were 110 patients in intensive care with COVID-related critical illness and 76 people on ventilators.

       The province says it administered 53,975 COVID-19 vaccine doses since the last daily update for a total of more than 19.7 million shots.

       According to Public Health Ontario, from the end of June to the end of July, unvaccinated people were eight times more likely to become infected with COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

       It’s been three weeks since Ontario entered Step 3 of the Ford government’s re-opening plan but the province hasn’t met its vaccine targets to further loosen COVID-19 restrictions.

       To move on from Step 3, 80 per cent of all Ontarians aged 12 and up have to have at least one dose, 75 per cent of people need to have two doses, and all public health units have to have a 70 per cent full vaccination rate.

       So far, Ontario has only met the first condition.

       Only about half of Ontario’s 34 health units have met the third condition as of Friday, and only 72 per cent of adults are fully vaccinated.

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