For the second day in a row, the province has confirmed more than 3,000 new COVID cases and more than 800 COVID-positive patients in Ontario hospitals.
Nine more people have died after contracting COVID-19 in the last month, according to the latest update from the province. Another nine deaths that occurred more than a month ago were also added to the provincial total.
Since March 2, 2022, the province has reported 225 COVID deaths.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,451 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 2,173 more recoveries and 3,519 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 1,166,128 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 1,131,601 cases recovered or resolved.
The April 1 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- 804 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, down from 807 reported yesterday. Of those, 49 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and 51 per cent were admitted for unrelated reasons, but tested positive for COVID-19.
- Among the hospitalized patients (not in the ICU) are 143 unvaccinated people, 28 partially vaccinated people, and 503 fully vaccinated people.
- 167 people are in ICU because of COVID-related critical illness, which is even with yesterday's report. Of those, 38 no longer test positive for COVID-19.
- There are 97 patients on ventilators because of COVID-related critical illness, up from 93 yesterday.
- Included in the ICU hospitalizations are 36 unvaccinated people, three partially vaccinated people, and 63 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 17,468 tests for the latest report, resulting in a 16.4 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
In the last update published March 30, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported zero deaths, 307 new COVID cases, and three 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 38,307 cases of COVID-19 with 36,764 of those cases recovered and 438 cases ending in death.
The next update for Simcoe-Muskoka will be posted by the health unit on Friday (April 1).
