TORONTO – Covid-19, the number of hospitalizations in Ontario is stable: today the beds occupied by Covid-patients in Ontario hospitals amounted to 849, compared to 842 on Sunday. On the other hand, the figure for intensive care still drops, from 281 patients on Sunday to 279 today (of which 171 with ventilators). The total number of hospitalized still remains well below one thousand, where it fell for the first time just the day before today. Within just one week, the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals dropped by more than 200. 

As for the count of new cases in Ontario, although the number is far from reality because of the limitation of the tests only to “at risk” categories, today the provincial health officials reported 1,315 infections. 12,116 tests were carried out, with a positive rate of 8.9%. The active and known cases, official, are 18,178 (yesterday they were 18,471). 3 deaths recorded today, bringing the total in the province to 12,433.

In Quebec today there were 7 deaths: the total in the province since the beginning of the pandemic is now 13,982. Admissions are at 1,446, with a decrease of 10 compared to Sunday. 94 patients in intensive care, with a decrease of 4. The daily count of new coronavirus cases in Quebec today stood at 845, but even here the tests are reserved for the “at risk” categories: 12,907 those carried out. The data that emerge from the self-declarations made by citizens on the government website where it is possible to insert the results of do-it-yourself tests performed at home is more reliable: today 334 were entered and, of these, 253 are positive. Officially, however, there are 14,219 active and non-active cases in Quebec: a number certainly very far from reality.

The same goes for Manitoba – where 5 deaths were recorded today that the total toll at 1,680 -: here the active cases turn out to be 9,388, but the Province itself states that the actual number is probably higher, since the rapid tests they are not counted in the total. So much so that the positivity rate, which is the only one that gives a more precise “picture” of the situation, is 16.7%. Almost double that of Ontario.

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