Monday’s hospitality data is up from 977 patients on Sunday. However, not all hospitals report patient data on weekends. No information was provided on the incidental hospitalizations and the vaccination status of the patients.
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At the same time, the number of ICU patients has increased from 11 to 184. This number has been increasing for almost a week. Laboratories across Ontario have identified 2,401 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours through 12,149 tests. This produced a 17.6 percent positive rate, according to the province. The number of laboratory-confirmed cases reported today is underestimated due to limited access to PCR testing throughout the province. With three more COVID-19 deaths reported as of Sunday, the death toll in Ontario is 12,566. Ontario has seen 1,198,319 laboratory-confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, including 1,154,050 recurrences. The province’s chief medical officer is due to speak to the media on Monday afternoon for the first time in almost a month. Dr. Kieran Moore last spoke in public on March 13. Since then, disease-related hospitalizations have increased and sewage data suggests that the new coronavirus is spreading in a way that the province’s scientific advisory board has described as the sixth wave.
