On March 20, Public Health Ontario is reporting 551 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 139 people in intensive care units with COVID.
There are 182 patients in ICU with COVID-related illness, but 43 of those individuals are no longer testing positive for COVID.
As is the case on weekends, more than 10 per cent of hospitals did not submit data to the Daily Bed Census, meaning the number of hospitalizations could go up with more hospitals submitting data.
Public Health Ontario is also reporting three new deaths that occurred in the past month.
There are also 1,680 new COVID cases, although new case counts are underestimated as testing is limited.
The March 20 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 1,520 recoveries and three deaths since yesterday's report.
- Among the new cases confirmed today are 200 people who are not fully vaccinated and 452 fully vaccinated people.
- Lab-confirmed testing is mostly limited to Indigenous people, hospitalized people, and those who live or work in high-risk congregate care settings. As such a majority of the people being tested are fully vaccinated as per provincial or workplace mandatory vaccine policies.
Hospitalizations
- 551 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. Of those, 47 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and the other 53 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 182 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID. Of those, 79 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and the other 21 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 97 COVID patients on ventilators.
- Not all hospitals report on weekends, so hospitalization numbers are incomplete on Sunday and Monday.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,138,201 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 1,109,360 recoveries and 12,332 deaths.
