Ontario is reporting no new deaths in LTC homes—the second day no deaths have been reported, with eight less outbreaks.
Ontario is reporting 241 people in ICU due to COVID-19 and 751 in hospital overall testing positive for COVID-19, according to its latest report released Wednesday morning.
The numbers represent a 2.0 per cent decrease in the ICU COVID-19 count and a 3.6 per cent decrease 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 1,947 on Wednesday, up 61.1 per cent from the previous day – are also not considered an accurate assessment of how widespread COVID-19 is right now. 27 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. Due to incomplete weekend and holiday reporting, vaccination status data for hospital and ICU admissions is not updated on Sundays, Mondays and the day after holidays.The province says 12,047,319 people have completed their vaccinations, which means they’ve had two doses.
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