Ontario is reporting 202 people in ICU due to COVID-19 and 1,699 in hospital overall testing positive for COVID-19, according to its latest report.
Ontario is reporting 202 people in ICU due to COVID-19 and 1,699 in hospital overall testing positive for COVID-19, according to its latest report released Tuesday morning.
The numbers represent a 4.2 per cent decrease in the ICU COVID-19 count and a 19.4 per cent increase in hospitalizations overall. 26 per cent of the province’s 2,343 adult ICU beds remain available for new patients.that took effect Dec. 31, 2021, case counts – reported at 1,547 on Tuesday, up 21.3 per cent from the previous day – are also not considered an accurate assessment of how widespread COVID-19 is right now. 16 new deaths were reported in the latest numbers.
Given the prevalence of the Omicron variant in Ontario, breakthrough infections among fully vaccinated people are common but early data from multiple studies around the world suggest symptoms are more mild and serious complications are more rare than in previous stages of the pandemic.
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