Ontario officials have confirmed 21 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past week, while hospitalizations related to the disease continue to decline slowly.
Provincial COVID-19 data is now released weekly in Ontario every Thursday at 2 p.m.
Recent data show that 486 people are being treated with COVID-19 in hospitals in Ontario. This represents a slight decrease from 491 hospital patients reported a week earlier.
Of the patients, about 43 percent were treated specifically for COVID-19, while the remaining patients tested positive after ingestion.
96 people are in intensive care with COVID-19 as of June 23, and the province says about 61% have been admitted because of the new coronavirus.
One week ago, there were 109 patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit.
In the last seven days, the province has confirmed an additional 21 deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 13,378.
Just over 61,000 tests for COVID-19 were conducted in the last week, resulting in an average positive test result of about 7.6%.
The average for seven days of the previous week is about 6.9 percent.
The majority of Ontario residents do not qualify for COVID-19 testing, and the results of rapid home antigen tests are not tracked.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 1,319,977 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province.
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