Ontario reported 16 net new COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, as the number of people in hospital testing positive for COVID-19 fell by nearly 100 in the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health says 14 of the deaths occurred in the past 30 days and two others occurred prior to that period.There have been 108 deaths reported in the past seven days and 467 in the past 30 days.Meanwhile, the number of patients testing positive for COVID-19 fell by 97 to 1,248 on Wednesday, down from 1,528 one week ago and 1,698 two weeks ago.UHN infectious diseases specialist Dr.
“Just about every metric is pointing in the right direction, things are getting better. We had a big wave and this wave is receding,” he told CP24 “We’re seeing even the later metrics start to get better – the per cent of positive cases is starting to decline, it’s been a couple of weeks now.“And now what you’re starting to see is those later metrics like the actual numbers of people in hospital are in decline.
Of the 1,692 cases confirmed through PCR testing on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health says 201 involved unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, 270 involved people with two doses of vaccine, 1,087 involved people with three or more doses of vaccine and the vaccination status of 134 others was not known.
Provincial labs processed 15,599 test specimens on Wednesday, generating a positivity rate of 10.5 per cent.Ontario administered 27,019 COVID-19 vaccine doses on Tuesday. Of those, 1,168 were first doses, 1,357 were second doses, 2,466 were third doses and 22,028 were fourth doses.
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