Ontario-related COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline as the province reports an additional 15 deaths related to the disease.
Officials said on Friday that 948 people who tested positive for the new coronavirus were being treated in hospital, including 154 intensive care patients.
About 41% of patients are treated specifically for COVID-19. The other patients tested positive for other diseases.
In intensive care, more than half of the patients, about 61 percent, were admitted because of COVID-19.
Authorities also confirmed an additional 15 deaths related to COVID-19. Fourteen of these people have died in the last month, while the rest of the deaths have been added to the cumulative total in catching up.
Eight of those reportedly died on Friday have been placed in long-term care, officials said.
At least 13,210 people in Ontario have died after contracting COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
With just over 13,300 tests for COVID-19 processed in the last 24 hours, the health ministry says the province’s positive rate remains stagnant at 8.3 percent.
Ontario PCR testing, which is used to calculate provincial positivity and daily calculations, remains limited to highly vulnerable or hospitalized individuals.
On Friday, officials said those tests led to 1,096 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of Ontario since March 2020 to 1,299,843.
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