Ontario Reports Highest Number of COVID Patients in ICU Since Mid-October

Ontario reports another 788 COVID-19 cases and three more deaths. Of the three, one of the deaths occurred more than a month ago and was added to the cumulative count due to a data cleanup. according to the latest report from the province released Monday morning.

Ontario has administered 22,442 vaccine dose since its last daily update, with 22,950,908 vaccinations administered in total at 8 pm the night before.

According to Star’s vaccine tracker, 11,696,852 people in Ontario have received at least one injection. That works out to roughly 89.7 percent of the eligible population ages 12 and older, and the equivalent of 78.7 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.

The province says 11,254,056 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received both doses. That’s roughly 86.3 percent of the eligible population 12 and older, and the equivalent of 75.7 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.

The province now includes data that reflects hospitalizations and cases by vaccination status. Ontario cautions that the new process may cause discrepancies between other hospitalization numbers that are collected through a different process, and that the data may not match daily COVID-19 case counts.

The province reports that 412 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in unvaccinated people, 27 were partially vaccinated, and 315 cases were fully vaccinated. Again, the province cautions that the data may not match daily COVID case counts because records with a missing or invalid health card number cannot be linked.

The province says data on hospitalizations by vaccination status will not be updated on Sundays and Mondays due to incomplete weekend reports.

The province also includes data on COVID-19 in schools as part of its daily reports.

There are 717 schools with a reported COVID case out of 4,844 schools in the province, or 14.80 percent.

There are 131 new cases reported Monday for a total of 7,226 school-related COVID cases reported in Ontario.

The province says 16 schools have closed due to outbreaks or operational considerations. It does not include regional closures in a local public health unit area.

To find out if there are COVID cases in your child’s school, use Star’s tracking tool to search.

The province says 26,016 tests were completed the day before and a positivity rate of 3.5 percent.

There are currently 145 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 131 intensive care patients who tested positive for COVID-19, the highest number on record since October 21. There are 89 people with respirators.

Locally, Ontario reports 106 new cases in Toronto, 84 in Windsor-Essex, 49 in the Peel region, 48 in the York region, 32 in Ottawa, and 30 in the Durham region.

Meanwhile, the province reports that there are no new deaths in long-term care, so the number of residents who have died remains the same at 3,824, in the latest report published by the province.

Ontario reports that there are no new long-term care homes in the outbreak, for a total of four or 0.6 percent of LTC homes in the province.

These data are self-reported by long-term care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. The daily case and death figures may not immediately match the figures published by local public health units due to delays in reporting time.