TORONTO – Another 24 deaths related to Covid-19, today, in Ontario: despite the reassurances of the experts who speak of a descent of the curve, a decrease in hospitalizations and infections, an improvement in the situation, the virus continues to claim victims, whether they died with Covid (and therefore for other pathologies, but with the virus giving the “coup de grace”) or due to Covid. The tragic toll of the pandemic in Ontario thus rises to 13,265. 

But, as we said, hospitalizations are decreasing. Today there were 127 infected patients in intensive care across Ontario, down sharply from 140 just 24 hours earlier: the last time the province had registered 127 ICU admissions was last November 8. 722 in total the infected people admitted to hospitals, also in this case a sharp decrease compared to yesterday, when they were 808.

As for the infections, 1,030 were registered today, based on the 13,097 tests processed in the last 24 hours: the provincial positivity rate is now 8.3%. In the Greater Toronto Area, provincial health officials reported 300 new cases in Toronto, 96 in the Peel region, 57 in the York region, 41 in the Halton region and 28 in the Durham region. 59 cases were also reported among residents and 23 among staff of long-term care facilities. And also 3 of the 24 deaths today concern elderly residents of nursing and retirement homes. There are still 107, in Ontario, the structures of this type in which an outbreak of Covid-19 is still active.

Today, 1,478 recoveries from the disease were also recorded, bringing the number of patients healed in Ontario, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 1,281,066 out of a total of 1,304,063 laboratory-confirmed cases.

The active and known cases drop, for the first time in some time, below 10 thousand: today they were at 9,732, against 10,204 the previous day. The number is probably far from reality, given the limitation of access to tests only to “at risk” categories, but the trend is that and remains downward.

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