Ontario health officials say 1,684 people are in hospital with COVID-19, with 23 other deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
Saturday’s figures show an increase in the number of hospitalizations reported since Friday, when the hospital had 1,591 patients.
It should be noted that not all hospitals report patient data over the weekend.
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Fifty-four percent of patients currently receiving care were not admitted due to COVID-19, but have since tested positive. Forty-six percent were accepted because of COVID-19.
In the intensive care unit, two patients are no longer seeking care, which reduces the total number of those in intensive care with COVID-19 to 212.
In addition, 66% were admitted to intensive care due to their diagnosis of COVID-19, while 34% were admitted for another reason, but now the test is positive.
In addition, 23 deaths due to the disease have been reported since Friday. Health officials say one death has been eliminated from the province’s 12,728 deaths due to “data cleansing.”
With 20,004 tests for COVID-19 processed in the last 24 hours, the Department of Health said the Ontario test was about 17.3 percent.
At least 3,820 positive cases of COVID-19 have been identified through these tests, although this number is underestimated due to limited access to PCR testing in the province.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Ontario, 1,238,060 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported. That number includes 1,191,712 people who have recovered.
On Friday, Ontario’s chief medical officer, Dr. Kieran Moore, said he was a cautious optimist that the worst of the sixth wave of COVID-19 would end soon, as hospitalizations are expected to peak next week.
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