There are 1,679 COVID-positive patients in Ontario hospitals, according to the latest update.
Among those hospitalizations are 209 COVID patients in intensive care unit beds and 94 on a ventilator with COVID-related illness.
The province also reported 19 more COVID-related deaths. In the last 30 days, 302 people have died because of COVID in Ontario, with between five and 19 deaths per day.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,812 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 2,760 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 1,255,338 cases of COVID-19 and reported 1,211,784 cases recovered or resolved.
The April 29 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- Of the 1,679 people hospitalized with COVID, 44 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and 56 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, 68 partially vaccinated people, and 1,078 with two or more doses of vaccine.
- Among the COVID patients in the ICU are 30 unvaccinated people, eight partially vaccinated people, and 94 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 19,235 tests, resulting in a 13.2 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported three deaths, 14 new hospitalizations, and 298 new COVID cases in its latest report published on April 27.
There are 36 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 43,175 cases of COVID-19 with 41,125 of those cases recovered and 468 cases ending in death.
The next update from the health unit will be published April 29.
