There are 1,730 COVID-positive patients in Ontario hospitals, the highest in three months, according to the latest update.
Among those hospitalizations are 219 COVID patients in intensive care unit beds and 90 on a ventilator with COVID-related illness.
The province also reported 13 more COVID-related deaths. In the last 30 days, 260 people have died because of COVID in Ontario, with between five and 18 deaths per day.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,750 deaths that were either caused by COVID, COVID was a contributing factor to the death, or the cause of death was unknown or missing.
The daily update included 1,827 lab-confirmed COVID cases. Case counts are assumed to be underestimated because of limited PCR testing and only PCR results are included in the daily case counts.
Since the start of the pandemic, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,246,013 cases of COVID-19 and reported 1,200,516 cases recovered or resolved.
The April 26 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- Of the 1,730 people hospitalized with COVID, 45 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and 55 per cent were hospitalized for other reasons but test positive for COVID-19.
- Among those hospitalized but not in the ICU are 235 unvaccinated people, 76 partially vaccinated people, and 1,075 with two or more doses of vaccine.
- Among the COVID patients in the ICU are 27 unvaccinated people, four partially vaccinated people, and 102 people with two or more doses of vaccine.
Vaccination
- About 86 per cent of the population over four years old in Ontario has two or more doses of COVID vaccine (about 12.1 million people)
- More than 7.2 million people in Ontario have had three doses of a COVID vaccine.
- 10 per cent of the eligible population (aged 5 and up) is unvaccinated
Testing
- Ontario labs processed 13,451 tests, resulting in a 13.2 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported one death, seven new hospitalizations, and 468 new COVID cases in its latest report published on April 25.
There are 26 people from the region currently hospitalized because of COVID-19. This number does not include people who were hospitalized for other reasons and also test positive for COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 42,886 cases of COVID-19 with 40,711 of those cases recovered and 465 cases ending in death.
