Province reporting drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU number remains steady
Posted January 23, 2022 10:24 am.
Last Updated January 23, 2022 1:14 pm.
The province is reporting a decline in hospitalizations on Sunday — but not all hospitals report their data on weekends.
57 new deaths related to COVID-19 are being reported on Sunday — one case is from December.
Ontario is seeing 3,797 patients in hospital with COVID-19. This number is a drop compared to the 4,026 seen the day before.
This is also the lowest number of hospitalizations in a week.
According to provincial data, 604 people are in ICU with the virus — this number up by four compared to Sunday.
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The Ontario Hospital Association is reporting a seven-day rolling average of 578 of critical care patients in ICU.
The OHA’s seven-day average rolling number has been increasing steadily for more than a month.
January 23 – Critical Care Services Ontario is reporting 590 adult #COVID related critical illness (CRCI) patients in ICUs. 375 CRCI patients were ventilated. There were 45 new adult admissions. The 7-day rolling avg. of CRCI patients in ICU is 578. #onpoli #onhealth pic.twitter.com/lRpeWeW3Cs
— Ontario Hospital Association (@OntHospitalAssn) January 23, 2022
As of Sunday, 91.6 per cent of Ontarians 12 years of age and older have at least one dose of a vaccine, while 88.9 per cent have two shots, according to the health minister.
In the past day, more than 79,000 vaccine doses have been administered, bringing the total administered in Ontario to 30,056,293.
There are 5,833 new cases of COVID-19 being reported on Sunday — but health officials are warning the number of infections is much higher due to the province’s testing capacity and accessibility.
In the past day, 32,247 tests have been completed with an 18.2 per cent test positivity rate.
This is the lowest number of tests we’ve seen since this past Tuesday, but the highest test positivity rate since Wednesday.
