Ontario health officials report the lowest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the province since December.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health of Ontario, 370 people are currently in hospital with COVID-19.
The last time the province reported less than 370 people in a hospital with COVID-19 was on December 20, 2021, when staff registered 284 hospitalizations.
Meanwhile, admissions to the intensive care unit increased slightly from 110 to 112.
It should be noted that not all hospitals report patient data over the weekend.
Of those patients in hospital, the province said 42 were breathing with a ventilator due to COVID-19. That’s eight fewer people who aired just a week ago.
One week ago, 419 patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized, 111 of them in the intensive care unit.
With 6,884 PCR tests processed in the last 24 hours, the province reported 6.5 cents of positive results. That’s up from 7.1% at the time last week and 8.6% two weeks ago.
There are currently 13,338 cumulative COVID-19 cases in Ontario, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the province to 1,312,844.
Several epidemiologists and public health experts predict that transmission will remain low throughout the summer, but said the rate could rise once people go inside when the weather gets colder.
Today, the ministry added two net new deaths to its COVID-19 number, which now stands at 13,338. It added 50 net new deaths to that number last week.
There are currently 57 active outbreaks in long-term care homes, 32 in nursing homes and 21 in hospitals, compared to 73, 33 and 22 respectively last week.
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