Ontario officials have confirmed 21 new COVID-19 deaths over the last week while hospitalizations related to the disease continue to slowly drop.
The most recent data shows 486 people are being treated with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals. This represents a slight dip from the 491 patients in hospital reportedOf those in hospital, about 43 per cent are being treated specifically for COVID-19 while the rest of the patients tested positive after admission.
There are 96 people in intensive care with COVID-19 as of June 23 and the province says that about 61 per cent were admitted due to the novel coronavirus.In the last seven days, the province has confirmed an additional 21 deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the total death tally in the province to 13,378.
Just over 61,000 COVID-19 tests were administered in the last week, leading to an average positivity rate of about 7.6 per cent.The vast majority of Ontarians are not eligible for COVID-19 testing and the results of rapid antigen tests performed at home are not tracked. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 1,319,977 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province.Paramedics wheel a patient into the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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