The number of hospitalizations related to COVID-19 has dropped again in the latest update from Public Health Ontario.
On Feb. 19, Public Health Ontario is reporting 1,191 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 329 people in intensive care units with COVID.
Since reporting 1,550 hospitalizations on Tuesday, the number has decreased each day since.
The number of people in intensive care is also down.
There are also 2,244 new COVID cases, although new case counts are underestimated as testing is limited.
The Feb. 19 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 2,623 recoveries and 14 deaths since yesterday's report.
- There were four deaths that were removed from the cumulative total based on data cleaning.
- Among the new cases confirmed today are 303 unvaccinated people, 77 partially vaccinated people, and 1,651 fully vaccinated people.
- Lab-confirmed testing is mostly limited to Indigenous people, hospitalized people, and those who live or work in high-risk congregate care settings. As such a majority of the people being tested are fully vaccinated as per provincial or workplace mandatory vaccine policies.
Hospitalizations
- 1,191 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. Of those, 51 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and the other 49 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 329 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID. Of those, 81 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and the other 19 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 216 COVID patients on ventilators.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,085,518 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 1,051,247 recoveries and 12,247 deaths.
