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Province reports 1,281 hospitalizations, 352 people in ICU due to COVID

Limited testing captures 2,337 new cases in Ontario
Maija Hoggett
Maija Hoggett
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The number of hospitalizations and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for COVID continues to drop.

Today, the province reported 352 people are in ICU due to the virus. That's down from 356 people yesterday.

There are 1,281 COVID-positive patients in hospital with COVID, down from 1,342 people yesterday.

There are 33 new deaths being reported today, including three from more than a month ago added for data cleaning.

Limited testing has captured 2,337 new cases included in the latest report. Case numbers are underestimated. The test positivity rate is 10.8 per cent.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,083,274 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and reported 1,048,624 recoveries and 12,237 deaths.

The Feb. 15 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:

Cases

  • 2,939 recoveries since yesterday's report.
  • Among the new cases there are 303 unvaccinated people, 81 partially vaccinated people, 1,656 fully vaccinated people, and 297 people with unknown vaccination status.

Hospitalizations

  • Of the 1,281 in hospital testing positive, 50.8 per cent were admitted because of COVID and 49 per cent were admitted for other reasons.
  • There are 221 COVID patients on ventilators due to COVID-related critical illness

Vaccination

  • About 85 per cent of the population five years and older in Ontario is fully vaccinated (about 11.9 million people), four per cent is partially vaccinated and 11 per cent is unvaccinated.
  • More than 6.7 million people in Ontario have had three doses of a COVID vaccine.

Simcoe-Muskoka

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported two deaths and three new hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in its Feb. 17 update. 

There are at least 41 people from the region hospitalized because of COVID.

Testing has captured 150 new COVID cases in the region since Tuesday, Feb. 16. However, provincial testing is limited to certain high-risk groups, and therefore the results are an underestimation of the true number of positive cases in the community. 

Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 34,281 cases of COVID-19, with 32,291 of those cases recovered and 391 cases ending in death.