Ontario COVID numbers: 849 people in hospital, 279 in intensive care
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Ontario reported three more virus-related deaths on Monday.
Ontario is reporting 849 people in hospital with COVID on Monday with 279 in intensive care units as numbers continue to trend downward.
This is up by seven hospitalizations but a decrease of two for ICUs since the previous day, though officials noted not all hospitals reported updated figures due to the weekend.
Last Monday, there were 1,064 hospitalizations with 320 in ICU.
The province recently began distinguishing between those who were admitted to hospital directly because of COVID, and those who were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for the virus.
Those figures aren’t updated on Mondays due to incomplete data reporting from hospitals over the weekend.
However, latest figures from last week show roughly 54 per cent of those hospitalized with COVID were admitted for other reasons. Of those in intensive care with the virus, roughly 18 per cent were admitted for other reasons.
Meanwhile, Ontario also reported 1,315 new lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, though that is an underestimate of the true widespread transmission of the virus due to testing restrictions. The provincial case total now stands at 1,102,011.
Of the 1,315 new cases recorded, the data showed 146 were unvaccinated people, 31 were partially vaccinated people, 1,072 were fully vaccinated people. For 66 people the vaccination status was unknown.
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