Ontario reported 10 net new COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, with most recent hospitalization data temporarily unavailable.
The Ministry of Health says eight of the deaths occurred in the past 30 days and two others occurred prior to that.One of the deaths reported today involved a resident of the long-term care system.Overall hospital occupancy due to COVID-19 was not available today as the provincial open data portal undergoes maintenance.
The Ontario Hospital Association said there were 160 COVID-19 patients in intensive care on Saturday, compared to the province reporting 165 patients admitted on Friday, but both organizations use different cut-off times and other definitions so the two numbers cannot be directly compared. The Ministry of Health says that of 3,077 new cases detected through limited PCR testing on Saturday, 378 were among unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated people, 745 involved people with two doses of vaccine, 1,810 involved people with three doses of vaccine and the vaccination status of 144 other infected people was not known.
Provincial labs processed 14,095 test specimens in the previous period, generating a positivity rate of at least 16.7 per cent. Positivity has climbed from under nine per cent one month ago to between 14 and 18 per cent over the past seven days.