On May 7, Public Health Ontario is reporting 1,563 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 204 people in intensive care units due to COVID.
Of the 204 individuals in ICU due to COVID, 173 are testing positive for the virus.
Public Health Ontario is also reporting 24 deaths.
There are also 2,164 new COVID cases, although new case counts could be underestimated as testing is limited.
The May 7 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 2,820 recoveries and 24 deaths since yesterday's report.
- Among the new cases confirmed today are 229 people who are not fully vaccinated, 395 vaccinated people with two shots, and 1,377 people who have been vaccinated with booster shots.
- 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
- 1,563 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. Of those, 43 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and the other 57 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 204 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID. Of those, 65 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and the other 35 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 92 COVID patients on ventilators.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,272,972 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 1,235,302 recoveries and 12,962 deaths.
