There are 1,662 COVID-positive people currently hospitalized with about 45 per cent of them admitted for COVID-related illness, according to the latest Ontario update.
That's the highest number of COVID-positive patients reported in Ontario hospitals since Feb. 12.
There are 203 COVID patients in intensive care unit beds and 92 are on a ventilator with COVID-related illness.
The province also reported 28 more COVID-related deaths that occurred within the last month.
According to the latest update, there have been 215 COVID deaths in the last 30 days, with between five and 16 deaths each day.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,661 deaths that were either caused by COVID, COVID was a contributing factor to the death, or the cause of death was unknown or missing.
The daily update included 1,073 lab-confirmed COVID cases, but technical glitches have caused this number to be lower than the actual test results.
Case counts are assumed to be underestimated because not everyone is eligible to receive PCR testing and only PCR results are included in the daily case counts.
Since the start of the pandemic, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,224,534 cases of COVID-19 and reported 1,180,793 cases recovered or resolved.
The April 20 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- 1,662 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, up from 1,486 reported yesterday. Of those, 45 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and 55 per cent were hospitalized for other reasons but test positive for COVID-19.
- Among those hospitalized but not in the ICU are 221 unvaccinated people, 76 partially vaccinated people, and 1,016 fully vaccinated people.
- 203 people are in ICU because of COVID-related critical illness, which is down from 206 reported yesterday. Of those, 29 no longer test positive for COVID-19.
- There are 92 patients on ventilators because of COVID-related critical illness, up from 87 reported yesterday.
- Among the COVID patients in the ICU are 34 unvaccinated people, six partially vaccinated people, and 90 fully vaccinated people.
Vaccination
- About 86 per cent of the population over four years old in Ontario is fully vaccinated (about 12.1 million people)
- More than 7.2 million people in Ontario have had three doses of a COVID vaccine.
- 10 per cent of the eligible population (aged 5 and up) is unvaccinated
Testing
- Ontario labs processed 21,988 tests for the latest report, resulting in a 16.8 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
In the last update published April 13, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported zero deaths, 423 new COVID cases, and eight new hospitalizations.
There are 29 people from the region currently hospitalized because of COVID-19, including three patients in ICUs.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 40,902 cases of COVID-19 with 38,638 of those cases recovered and 448 cases ending in death.
The next update for Simcoe-Muskoka will be posted by the health unit on April 20.
