TORONTO – Covid-19: 9 other deaths today in Ontario, in addition to 20 on Saturday and 14 on Friday: therefore 43 victims over the weekend. Now the total death toll in the province since the start of the pandemic is 12,256. 

On the other hand, the details relating to the deaths have not been disclosed, as had been announced, i.e. whether or not they are deaths from or with Covid-19. The new data communication system was supposed to go into operation on Friday, but even today the numbers relating to the pandemic were rendered not according to the methodology so far, therefore without any difference used between the deaths caused by Covid-19 or those determined by others pathologies in patients who were also positive for the virus.

Covid patients present in Ontario hospitals are 722, of which 228 in intensive care, in further stay compared to 247 on Saturday. As for infections, today, 1,631 out of 11,874 tests were recorded (tests limited, we recall, to the “at risk” categories only): the positivity rate is 11.7%.

Most of the new cases were detected in Toronto (324), Ottawa (89), Durham Region (78), York Region (64), Peel Region (62) and Middlesex-London (62). Other areas with high case numbers include Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health (93), Simcoe Muskoka (64), Northwestern Health Unit (65), Hamilton (63), Halton Region (70), and Windsor-Essex ( 50). The number of active and known cases is 16,228.

Manitoba added on Friday (latest data available) another 2 victims to the deaths that have been, from the beginning of the pandemic, 1,710. In the hospitals of the province there are now 417 Covid patients, a decrease of 7 compared to Thursday. 23 hospitalized in intensive care (+1). On the contagion front, 200 new infections were recorded in Manitoba on Friday but even in this case the number is an underestimate due to the few tests carried out: the positivity rate is actually quite high, at 14%. Currently there are 5,058 active and known cases in Manitoba.

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