Ontario reports another death from COVID-19; lowest positivity since February 2022

Ontario reported a new death from COVID-19 on Monday, and labs reported the lowest positivity rate since February.

Provincial laboratories reported a positivity rate of 7.6%, based on 6,368 tests performed in the last 24 hours.

The last time positivity fell so low was on February 22, 2022, when positivity reached 6.9 percent.

The average positivity for the last seven days is now 8.7%, down from 10.1% the previous week.

The Ministry of Health said the only death reported on Monday was at some point last month.

There have been 65 deaths in the last seven days, 414 in the last 30 days and 13,226 in total.

General hospital occupancy data was incomplete on Monday, but on Monday there were 147 patients in intensive care, two more than on Sunday.

There were 67 patients breathing with the help of a ventilator, unchanged from Sunday, but three less than a week ago.

The Ontario COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board says wastewater monitoring data is on a downward trend or remains stable in all regions of the province.

The province reported 547 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the lowest figures seen since access to free trials was severely curtailed by the Ford government in late 2021.

Of these, 62 infections involved partially vaccinated or unvaccinated people, 93 people with two doses, 351 people with three or more doses of one vaccine, and the vaccination status of another 41 was unknown.

The Ministry of Health says 4,719 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were given on Sunday.

Of these, 343 were first doses, 621 were second doses, 763 were third doses, and 2,992 were fourth 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.

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