Ontario reported 24 new net deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as the number of patients with the virus in intensive care fell to its lowest point in more than seven months.
The Ministry of Health says one of the new deaths occurred more than a month ago and 23 more occurred in the last 30 days.
101 deaths have been reported in the province in the last seven days, 440 in the last 30 days and 13,265 in total.
Three of the new deaths involved residents in the long-term care system.
The Ministry of Health said that on Wednesday there were 722 patients in the hospital who tested positive for COVID-19, 86 less than on Tuesday and 360 compared to a week ago.
Of these, 127 were in intensive care.
This is the lowest ICU-positive occupancy of COVID patients seen in Ontario since early November 2021.
Sixty-four patients were breathing with a ventilator, two more patients than on Tuesday.
The Ontario COVID-19 Scientific Table now finds that the viral signal in the province’s wastewater continues to decline, with prevalence in the central part of the province and the GTA approaching the levels observed at the beginning. of Omicron in December 2021.
The estimated global transmission per million residents is now estimated at less than 100 infections per day.
Of the 590 cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday by limited free PCR tests, the Ministry of Health says 82 cases involved unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, 110 people with two doses of vaccine, 347 people with three or more doses and 51 involved people whose vaccination status was unknown.
Provincial laboratories processed 13,097 test samples in the previous 24-hour period, generating a positivity rate of 8.3 percent.
The average positivity for the last seven days was 8.3%, below the previous week, where it was 9.6%.
The province completed 17,293 vaccines against COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Of these, 899 were first dose, 1,161 were second dose, 2,041 were third dose and 13,192 were fourth dose.
The numbers used in this story are in the COVID-19 Daily Epidemiological Summary of the Ontario Ministry of Health. The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from what the province reports, because local units report figures at different times.