Ontario reported a new death from COVID-19 on Monday, as test positivity continues to drop to levels rarely seen since the arrival of the Omicron variant.
The Ministry of Health says the death reported today occurred more than 30 days ago.
There have been 64 deaths in the last seven days, 368 in the last 30 days and a total of 13,289.
The total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 was 430, of whom 116 were in intensive care. It should be noted, however, that hospital occupancy data reported on Monday represent an incomplete census, as more than 10% of hospitals do not upload data to the ministry over the weekend.
At that time last week the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 was 611, including 147 in intensive care.
Meanwhile, provincial labs processed 6,289 test samples in the last 24 hours, generating a positivity rate of seven percent.
It is the lowest positivity seen in the province since February 22nd.
The average positivity of the last seven days was 7.6%, the previous week was 8.9%.
Ontario’s COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board says the signal from the wastewater virus is declining in all regions of the province except the north.
Of the 468 cases confirmed by PCR testing in the last 24 hours, 68 involved unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, 68 people with two doses of vaccine, 297 people with three or more doses of vaccine and the vaccination status of another 35 it wasn’t. still known.
The Ministry of Health says that 3,411 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered on Sunday.
Of these, 265 were first doses, 460 were second doses, 623 were third doses, and 2,063 were fourth doses.
In all age groups, 84.7% of residents received at least one dose of vaccine, 81.6% received two and 49.3% received three or more doses.
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.