Ontario reports 13 COVID deaths with hospitalizations up 25% week-over-week
Posted April 13, 2022 10:46 am.
Last Updated April 13, 2022 10:58 am.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ontario are up nearly 25 per cent week-over-week as the province reports another 13 deaths from the virus.
Provincial officials are reporting 1,332 patients in the hospital on Wednesday, up from 1,074 one week ago. The number is down slightly from the 1,366 on Tuesday where the province saw the highest number of hospitalizations since Feb. 16.
The number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU sits at 182 and is down from 190 a day ago but up from 168 one week ago. There are 85 patients on a ventilator.
The province is also reporting 13 net new deaths with the Ministry of Health saying 12 of the new deaths occurred in the last 30 days.
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— Dr. Jennifer Kwan (@jkwan_md) April 13, 2022
Officials are reporting another 3,833 new infections but that figure is believed to be significantly underreported due to limits in the province’s testing capacity. The latest wastewater surveillance data suggests the province could be seeing more than 100,000 new infections daily.
There were 23,618 tests completed in the last 24-hour period for a test positivity rate of 17.5 per cent.
There were another 38,191 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered across the province and nearly 30,000 of them were fourth doses. The province expanded the eligibility of fourth doses last week to residents 60 and older.
The Ford government also announced this week the province is expanding eligibility for COVID-19 antiviral treatments and PCR testing to more high-risk individuals.
The higher-risk groups eligible to be tested and assessed for antiviral treatments, such as Paxlovid, include individuals aged 18 and over who are immunocompromised (have an immune system that is weakened by a health condition or medications), individuals aged 70 and over, those 60 and over with fewer than three vaccine doses, and people aged 18 and over with fewer than three vaccine doses and at least one risk condition.
