COVID on Monday with 583 in intensive care units.This is down by 36 hospitalizations and a decrease of four in ICUs since the previous day, though officials noted not all hospitals reported updated figures due to the weekend.This is the fifth straight day hospitalizations have dropped, and the third day in a row the number of patients in ICUs has decreased.The province recently began distinguishing between those who were admitted to hospital directly because of COVID, and those who were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for the virus.Those figures aren’t updated on Mondays due to incomplete data reporting from hospitals over the weekend.However, figures from last week show roughly 45 per cent of those hospitalized with COVID were admitted for other reasons.
Of those in intensive care with the virus, roughly 18 per cent were admitted for other reasons. Here’s what’s open at 50% capacity in Ontario on Jan.
31 as restrictions ease Meanwhile, Ontario also reported 3,043 new lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, though that is an underestimate of the true widespread transmission of the virus due to recent testing restrictions.
The provincial case total now stands at 1,033,294.Of the 3,043 new cases recorded, the data showed 529 were unvaccinated people, 119 were partially vaccinated people, 2,125 were fully vaccinated people.