[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Hospitalizations remained stable over the past 24 hours at 117, with 17 people in intensive care.In total, there have been 5,755 deaths and 62,232 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.The new case total reflects the fact that 78 false positive tests have now been removed from the calculations after samples were contaminated at a Montreal lab..