Ontario reported another 17 deaths from COVID-19, 1,410 hospitalizations

Ontario health officials reported 17 net new deaths and 1,410 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Sunday.

That’s 266 fewer patients in hospital than on Saturday, but still 48 more than a week ago, when 1,362 were in hospital.

The province says 42% of COVID-19 patients have been hospitalized for the virus.

There are 187 patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit, 153 of whom were admitted to the intensive care unit due to the virus.

The average number of patients with COVID-19 in the past week was 1621. This is an average of 1530 patients for the previous week.

Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Isaac Bogach tweeted Sunday that hospitalizations appear to be declining due to the virus.

“COVID-related hospitalizations appear to be declining in Ontario and the positive rate continues to fall, now to ~ 13% from ~ 19% in mid-April,” Bogoch wrote on Twitter. “Wastewater signals are intermittent. There is still a lot of COVID, but an overall improvement (with some regional variability). ”

The province confirmed another 2,243 cases on Sunday, but that number is considered severely underestimated due to limited PCR testing.

The numbers used in this story are in the Ontario Department of Health’s daily epidemiological summary for COVID-19. The number of cases for each city or region may differ slightly from that reported by the province, as local units report figures at different times.