Ontario health officials say there are currently 1,126 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 159 patients in intensive care.
Thursday’s hospitalization total marks an increase over the 1,091 count reported on Wednesday. The last time the hospitalization count was this high in Ontario was on Feb. 19 when 1,191 people were in hospital with the disease.
Meanwhile, the total number of patients in intensive care units across Ontario dropped slightly from 168 on Wednesday to 159 on Thursday. Officials also reported 16 more deaths due to COVID-19 that occurred over the past 30 days. Since the start of the pandemic, 12,527 individuals have died due to the disease.
The province reported 4,224 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, but health officials have warned that number is an underestimate due to testing limitations and backlogs. With 21,347 tests processed in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says the province's positivity rate is about 17.2 per cent.The numbers used in this story are found in the Ontario Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Daily Epidemiologic Summary. The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from what is reported by the province.
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