COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Ontario have returned to 1,082, with the number of patients in the ICU rising slightly to 160.
Wednesday’s figures show an increase from Tuesday’s when the province reported 890 patients at the hospital and 157 at the ICU.
COVID-19 reports are often delayed after a weekend and a public holiday Monday, which may explain the increases.
Of the hospitalized patients, 671 are fully vaccinated, 159 are not vaccinated and 37 are partially vaccinated. The vaccination status of the remaining patients in the hospital was not disclosed.
Fifty-nine percent of current hospitalizations in Ontario are accidental, meaning these patients were admitted for a reason other than COVID-19, but have since tested positive. The other 41% of hospitalized patients are due to COVID-19 infection.
In the ICU, 69 patients are fully vaccinated, 16 unvaccinated and seven partially vaccinated. No other vaccination information has been released.
The majority of patients in the ICU are 66 percent infected with COVID-19 infection. The remaining 34% tested positive after being admitted for a reason unrelated to the new coronavirus.
In the last 24 hours, 11 deaths have been reported due to COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the province to 13,175.
Testing for the new coronavirus in Ontario remains limited to selected high-risk groups and only 11,109 have been performed since Tuesday. These tests produced a positivity rate of 8.4%, according to the health ministry.
At least 775 new laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus were identified by these tests.
Ontario has registered 1,297,561 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the laboratory since the start of the pandemic and 1,271,337 people have recovered after a positive diagnosis.