TORONTO – Covid-19 hospitalizations in Ontario continue to drop significantly: today there were 1,540 people admitted to hospitals in the province, yesterday they were 1,704, Friday 1,829 and last week as many as 2,493. The number of people in intensive care also dropped from 414 on Saturday to 402 today, although their number could be higher because not all hospitals report their data over the weekend. However, the trend is clear.

Unfortunately, the number of victims in Ontario is still high (another 22 today, five of them in long-term care homes), although to a lesser extent than last week’s numbers. The total death toll in Ontario since the start of the pandemic is now 12,097.

The Province also reported 2,265 new cases of Covid-19, a number which represents an underestimation due to the limitation of access to tests only to “at risk” categories. With 13,998 tests processed in the last 24 hours, the province’s positive rate is 11.8%.

In the Greater Toronto Area, provincial health officials recorded 259 new cases in the Peel region, 249 in Toronto, 115 in the York region, 99 in the Halton region and 97 in the Durham region and then 119 in Simcoe-Muskoka, 107 in Ottawa and 102 in Hamilton. All other regions reported fewer than 100 new cases today.

Of these case, 43 involve long-term care home residents and 79 their staff. There are still 197 structures of this type where there are outbreaks.

3,172 healings today, bringing the total number of Ontario patients healed since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,033,595, while the total number of laboratory confirmed cases in Ontario is now 1,072,720. The active and known cases of Covid-19 in Ontario are now 27,028.

In Quebec, hospitalizations continue to decrease and, fortunately, deaths too: today, for the first time in 2022, fewer than 10 people died in 24 hours. 9, to be precise, which bring the total deaths in Quebec since the beginning of the pandemic to 13,693.

There are 62 fewer patients in hospitals receiving treatment for the virus, for a total of 2,081. Of these, 140 patients are admitted to intensive care units, with a decrease of 13 units. Out of 21,637 tests analyzed today, 1,870 were positive with a positive rate of 8.7%. Since the start of the pandemic, 898,842 infections and 844,373 healings have been recorded in Quebec. There are still 40,776 active and known cases. Finally, let’s see the state of hospitalizations throughout Canada, province by province: Quebec 2,081, Alberta 1,566, Ontario 1,540, British Columbia 846, Saskatchewan 410, Manitoba 408, New Brunswick 116, Nova Scotia 79, Newfoundland and Labrador 22, Prince Edward Island 11.

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