Ontario reports 58 new COVID-19 deaths, daily cases below 2,000 again
Posted January 29, 2021 10:18 am.
Last Updated January 29, 2021 11:18 am.
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Ontario reported 58 more people have died from COVID-19 on Friday, as the number of new cases falls below 2,000.
Provincial health officials say 1,837 new infections were recorded, the fourth time in the last five days the province has seen fewer than 2,000 new cases. There were 2,093 cases reported Thursday.
There are 2,900 more resolved cases. The province has reported more resolved cases than new cases for over a week straight dropping the active cases to the lowest number since Dec. 29.
Most of the new cases are in Toronto (595), followed by Peel Region (295), and York Region (170).
The province completed 69,040 tests in the last 24 hours, which is only the second time this week more than 60,000 samples were processed and still shy of the 70,000 tests the province says it is capable of doing a day.
Another 10,215 doses of the vaccine were administered with more than 327,000 total doses administered across the province. Health officials say 61,679 people have now been fully vaccinated against coronavirus.
Hospitalizations fell to just below 1,300 while 360 COVID-19 patients are in the ICU – 271 of them are on ventilators.
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According to the latest modelling projections, the province could see between 1,000 to 2,000 cases a day by end of February but the new UK variant is expected to be dominant strain in March and could push new case counts higher.
The data also shows that while hospitalizations have started to decline, the strain on the ICU capacity continues. COVID-19 patients are projected to take up between 150 and 300 ICU beds by the end of February and access to non COVID-19 care in hospitals continues to decline.
