There are 1,734 COVID-positive patients in Ontario hospitals, according to the latest update.
Among those hospitalizations are 211 COVID patients in intensive care unit beds and 92 on a ventilator with COVID-related illness.
The province also reported 22 more COVID-related deaths. In the last 30 days, 276 people have died because of COVID in Ontario, with between five and 18 deaths per day.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,772 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 3,005 lab-confirmed COVID cases. Case counts are assumed to be underestimated because of limited PCR testing and only PCR results are included in the daily case counts.
Since the start of the pandemic, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,249,018 cases of COVID-19 and reported 1,204,571 cases recovered or resolved.
The April 27 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- Of the 1,734 people hospitalized with COVID, 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 225 unvaccinated people, 65 partially vaccinated people, and 1,076 with two or more doses of vaccine.
- Among the COVID patients in the ICU are 29 unvaccinated people, five partially vaccinated people, and 112 people with two or more doses of vaccine.
Vaccination
- About 86 per cent of the population over four years old in Ontario has two or more doses of COVID vaccine (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 23,230 tests, resulting in a 15.2 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported one death, seven new hospitalizations, and 468 new COVID cases in its latest report published on April 25.
There are 26 people from the region currently hospitalized because of COVID-19. This number does not include people who were hospitalized for other reasons and also test positive for COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 42,886 cases of COVID-19 with 40,711 of those cases recovered and 465 cases ending in death.
The next update from the health unit will be published April 27.
