TORONTO – The latest data relating to hospitalizations and infections are not comforting: what seems to emerge from the hospitals data and from the analysis of waste water, in fact, is a decline in the decline – which had so far been constant – of the presence of Covid-19 among the population. 

The progressive and constant falling of the number of infected patients in Ontario hospitals, first of all, has slowed down sharply: today, the hospitalized with Covid-19 were 512 against the 370 yesterday and therefore not only an increase compared to the previous 24 hours, but also and above all down by only 2.7% compared to last Tuesday. A week earlier, hospitalizations for Covid-19 had dropped from 808 to 526, marking a decline of 34.9%.

Meanwhile, Ontario’s wastewater data are rising again, after it was starting a steep drop in late April.

On the other hand, intensive care employment remains stable, with the number of infected hospitalized patients remaining stable at 116 exactly as it did a week ago. Of the inpatiens, 43% of those in ordinary wards and 57% of those in intensive care are in hospital for Covid-19, while the rest was hospitalized for other reasons and tested positive at the time of the test of admission to the hospital.

Today, meanwhile, deaths related to Covid-19 also rose: on Monday, no victims were registered for the first time since the beginning of May, while today 5 deaths were reported, bringing the total in Ontario, from start to pandemic, to 13,343.

460 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded today, however, on the basis of the very few tests (8,385) carried out only among people belonging to the “at risk” categories. Probably the real number is much higher, even if the active and known cases remain to decline: 7,901 today, against 8,177 the day before. The positivity rate, however, remains below 7, albeit slightly rising from 6.5% on Monday to 6.9% today.

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