Twelve more people have died after contracting COVID-19 and 94 people in Ontario are in hospitals on ventilators because of the disease.
Since March 1, the province has reported 226 COVID deaths.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,427 deaths that were either caused by COVID, COVID was a contributing factor to the death, or the cause of death was unknown or missing.
There were 2,419 more recoveries and 2,814 new cases confirmed through lab testing in today's report. New case counts are underestimated due to limited testing.
As of today, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,159,470 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 1,127,307 cases recovered or resolved.
The March 30 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- 778 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, down slightly from 790 reported yesterday. Of those, 50 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and 50 per cent were admitted for unrelated reasons, but tested positive for COVID-19.
- Among the hospitalized patients (not in the ICU) are 148 unvaccinated people, 27 partially vaccinated people, and 476 fully vaccinated people.
- 165 people are in ICU because of COVID-related critical illness, which is even with yesterday's report. Of those, 33 no longer test positive for COVID-19.
- There are 94 patients on ventilators because of COVID-related critical illness, up from 84 yesterday.
- Included in the ICU hospitalizations are 25 unvaccinated people, three partially vaccinated people, and 60 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 7.1 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 17,309 tests for the latest report, resulting in a 15.1 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
In the last update published March 28, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported two deaths, 303 new COVID cases, and zero new hospitalizations.
There are 14 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 38,013 cases of COVID-19 with 36,425 of those cases recovered and 438 cases ending in death.
The next update for Simcoe-Muskoka will be posted by the health unit on Wednesday (March 30).
