Of Friday’s hospitals, 179 patients are unvaccinated and 690 are fully vaccinated. The vaccination status of the other patients is unknown. Forty-five percent of patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 on Friday were admitted to the virus, while the remaining 55 percent tested positive after an unrelated admission. In ICUs, these percentages are 64 percent and 36 percent, respectively.
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Of the Ontario patients currently being treated for COVID-19 in the ICU, 25 are unvaccinated and 70 are fully vaccinated. The vaccination status of the other patients is unknown. Officials also reported ten new deaths due to COVID-19. Officials said six of the deaths occurred in the last 30 days, while four of them occurred a month ago. Since the onset of the pandemic, 12,537 people have died from the disease. With 17,565 tests processed in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says the province’s positive rate is about 19 percent. The county reported 4,295 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, but health officials have warned that the number is significantly underestimated due to testing restrictions and delays. Sewage data provided by the Ontario Scientific Table COVID-19 confirm an increase in contamination in the province. In almost every area of the province, the concentration of the disease in sewage has begun to rise, with the result that officials say that Ontario has officially entered the sixth wave of COVID-19. The county estimates that 2,644 more cases of the disease will be resolved by Friday, bringing the number of patients who have recovered in Ontario to 1,147,533. Today’s report puts the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in Ontario at 1,188,640.
