Day: 1 February 2022

Covid-19 new modelling: high number of hospitalizations, the guard remains high

TORONTO – The Ontario Science Table’s latest projections – the first in 2022 – suggest that following the lifting of some restrictions this week the peak of hospitalizations may be prolonged. Predictions about what will happen in the near future use three different scenarios based on different levels of immunity acquired through infection to chart the path forward. 

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of February 1, 2022, at 4:00 pm EST.

On Tuesday, health officials in Italy logged 133,142 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 11.1 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 76.4% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 339 Covid-related deaths for a total of 146,925 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

Victims of Covid, exceeded 34 thousand in Canada

TORONTO – Another 63 deaths in Ontario which bring the total of Covid victims, in the month of January, to 1,238. It is a long massacre that began two years ago, which has so far led to 11,510 deaths in the province alone and 34,002 throughout Canada. Quebec also recorded another peak of deaths today: 63, bringing the total since the beginning of the pandemic to 13,286.