On March 19, Public Health Ontario is reporting 613 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 141 people in intensive care units with COVID.
There are 185 patients in ICU with COVID-related illness, but 44 of those individuals are no longer testing positive for COVID.
Public Health Ontario is also reporting 13 new deaths that occurred in the past month. There are also three additional deaths that have been added to the cumulative total based on data cleaning.
There are also 2,078 new COVID cases, although new case counts are underestimated as testing is limited.
The March 19 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 1,704 recoveries and 13 deaths since yesterday's report.
- Among the new cases confirmed today are 117 unvaccinated people, 18 partially vaccinated people, and 365 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
- 613 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. Of those, 45 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and the other 55 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 185 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 91 COVID patients on ventilators.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,136,521 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 1,107,840 recoveries and 12,329 deaths.
