TORONTO – The tragic toll of deaths related to Covid-19 in Ontario still rises: over the weekend 30 people died (2 today, 13 Saturday and 15 Friday) which are added to 20 on Thursday and bring the total to the province, from the beginning of the pandemic, to 13,225. One of two deaths today was an elderly person in a long-term care facility. 

However, hospitalizations are decreasing, even if, as we all know, not all hospitals provide their data during the weekend. The number of infected patients would, however, be low: 643 people in ordinary wards, including 145 patients in intensive care, just one more than on Saturday when there were 144, the lowest number in the last six months.

Furthermore, of the patients admitted to hospital, only 40% are actually receiving treatment for the virus while the remaining 60% are hospitalized due to other diseases and discovered they only had the virus at the time of the hospital admission test. In intensive care, on the other hand, 65 percent of patients have been hospitalized due to Covid-19 while 35 percent are in intensive care for other diseases but are also infected.

On the contagion front, the province today registered 878 new cases of Covid-19, based on 8,213 tests carried out and reserved only for “at risk” categories, so the number is scarcely indicative. The positivity rate remains at 8.6%, more or less the same as in the previous days. The active and known cases in Ontario are now, official, 11,137. 

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