Ontario officials have confirmed 21 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past week, while hospitalizations related to the disease continue to decline slowly.
Provincial data on COVID-19 are now published weekly in Ontario every Thursday at 2 p.m.
The latest data show that 486 people are being treated with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals. This represents a slight drop from the 491 patients hospitalized a week earlier.
Of the hospitalized patients, about 43 percent are being treated specifically for COVID-19, while the rest of the patients tested positive after admission.
There are 96 people in intensive care with COVID-19 as of June 23, and the province says about 61 percent were hospitalized because of the new coronavirus.
One week ago there were 109 patients with COVID-19 in the ICU.
In the last seven days, the province has confirmed an additional 21 deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 13,378.
A little over 61,000 tests of COVID-19 were done last week, resulting in an average positivity rate of about 7.6 percent.
The seven-day average for the previous week was about 6.9 percent.
The vast majority of Ontarians are not eligible for COVID-19 testing and do not track the results of rapid antigen tests performed at home.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 1,319,977 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the laboratory in the province.