The number of hospitalizations and ICU admissions for COVID continues to drop.
Today, the province reported 352 people are in intensive care 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.
