TORONTO – Positive signs from the coronavirus front: the number of Covid-19 infected patients admitted to the Ontario intensive care units dropped to 119 today, the lowest level recorded since last summer. The last time ICU hospitalizations had been this low was on August 16, 2021, when the same number of patients was registered. 

The total number of hospitalized patients also decreased today, dropping to 670 from 722 reported just yesterday.

Of the patients currently hospitalized, 408 are fully vaccinated, 85 unvaccinated and 27 have all been vaccinated (for the rest, vaccination status is unknown). In intensive care, 58 patients are fully vaccinated, 9 unvaccinated and 6 vaccinated (the vaccination status of the rest is unknown). Furthermore, the percentage of those who are in hospital due to Covid-19 decreases: currently they are 42%, while 58% are covered for other diseases and discovered that they also have the virus only at the time of the entry text in the hospital. In intensive care, the reverse: most of the patients are there due to Covid-19 (69%) and only a minor part (31%) are in ICU for other pathologies and are also infected.

As for the infections, another 1,038 cases were recorded in Ontario today, out of a total of 10,783 swabs processed in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate is now 7.2%, still down from the previous days (yesterday it was 8.3%). The active and known cases are now, officially, 9,538: yesterday they were 9,732. The numbers are based on the “official” tests, which as we know are reserved for the “at risk” categories, but the downward trend that has been recorded for more than a month confirms that now the contagion is slowing down.

Today, another 2 deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded, bringing the death toll in the province, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 13,267. And also since the beginning of the pandemic, Ontario has recorded 1,305,101 cases in the laboratory and 1,282,296 healings.

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