There are 1,591 COVID-positive people currently hospitalized with about 46 per cent of them admitted for COVID-related illness, according to the latest Ontario update.
There are 214 COVID patients in intensive care unit beds and 86 are on a ventilator with COVID-related illness.
The province also reported 27 more COVID-related deaths that occurred within the last month.
According to the latest update, 248 people have died of COVID or COVID was a contributing factor in their death in the last 30 days. There have been between five and 17 deaths each day.
Over the course of the pandemic, the province has reported 12,704 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 4,668 lab-confirmed COVID cases. This total is higher than the last few days because of catch-up today after issues with the reporting program.
Case counts are assumed to be underestimated because not everyone is eligible to receive PCR testing and only PCR results are included in the daily case counts.
Since the start of the pandemic, Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,234,240 cases of COVID-19 and reported 1,188,438 cases recovered or resolved.
The April 21 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Hospitalizations
- 1,591 COVID-positive patients in hospitals, down from 1,626 reported yesterday. Of those, 46 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and 54 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, 65 partially vaccinated people, and 1,002 with two or more doses of vaccine.
- 214 people are in ICU because of COVID-related critical illness, which is up from 207 reported yesterday. Of those, 34 no longer test positive for COVID-19.
- There are 86 patients on ventilators because of COVID-related critical illness, down from 90 reported yesterday.
- Among the COVID patients in the ICU are 29 unvaccinated people, one partially vaccinated person, and 99 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 20,828 tests for the latest report, resulting in a 16.1 per cent positivity.
Simcoe-Muskoka
In the last update published April 20, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reported 14 deaths, 1,054 new COVID cases, and two new hospitalizations.
There are 16 people from the region currently hospitalized because of COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, the local health unit has confirmed 41,943 cases of COVID-19 with 39,900 of those cases recovered and 462 cases ending in death.
The next update for Simcoe-Muskoka will be posted by the health unit on April 22.
