Ontario reported 16 net new deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday as the number of people in a hospital tested positive for COVID-19 fell by nearly 100 in the past 24 hours.
The health ministry says 14 of the deaths occurred in the last 30 days, and another two occurred before that period.
Nine of the deaths reported on Wednesday involved residents of the long-term care system.
108 deaths have been reported in the last seven days and 467 in the last 30 days.
Ontario has documented 13,099 deaths due to COVID-19 since March 2020.
Meanwhile, the number of hospitalized patients tested positive for COVID-19 fell from 97 to 1,248 on Wednesday, from 1,528 a week ago and 1,698 two weeks ago.
Of these, 163 were in intensive care, compared to 176 a week ago.
UHN Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch said any indicators still used to track the progress of COVID-19 in the province were pointing in the right direction.
“Almost every indicator points in the right direction, things are improving. We had a big wave and that wave is receding, “he told CP24. “We see that even later indicators are starting to improve – the percentage of positive cases is starting to decline, a few weeks have passed. Wastewater signals have also been declining for some time. “
“And now what you’re starting to see are these later indicators, as the actual number of people in the hospital is declining.”
Of the 1,692 cases confirmed by PCR testing on Wednesday, the health ministry said 201 included unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, 270 included people with two doses of vaccine, 1,087 included people with three or more doses of vaccine and the vaccination status of 134 others were not known.
Provincial laboratories processed 1,599 test samples on Wednesday, generating a 10.5 percent positive result.
Positivity has fallen from an average of 17.2% a month ago to 11.1% today.
Ontario administered 27,019 doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
Of these, 1,168 were first doses, 1,357 were second doses, 2,466 were third doses, and 22,028 were fourth doses.
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.
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