Ontario reports 1 new COVID-19 death; hospitalizations increase to highest point since Feb. 15
There have now been 63 COVID-19 deaths reported in the past 7 days and 320 in the past 30 days.Meanwhile, hospitalizations climbed to a new multi-month high of 1,486 on Tuesday.
Of those, 206 were in intensive care – up 24 from one week ago – and 87 were breathing with the help of a ventilator.hospital admissions will grow by up to 247 patients per week.Approximately 55 per cent of those who test positive for COVID-19 after being admitted to hospital were brought to hospital for a reason other than coronavirus infection.
Of the 1,218 cases detected through PCR testing on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health, 164 involved unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, 239 involved people with two doses of vaccine, 699 involved people with three vaccine doses, while the vaccination status of 116 other cases was not yet known.
Provincial labs processed 15,322 specimens in the previous period, generating a positivity rate of at least 17.9 per cent.in eastern, central east and central west Ontario but declining in the GTA, southwestern Ontario and the north.Of those, 705 were first doses, 813 were second doses, 3,161 were third doses and 17,889 were fourth doses.