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Public Health Ontario reports 587 people in ICU with COVID-19 and 55 deaths

3,960 new cases have been reported, although new cases counts may be underestimated due to limits on who can be tested
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On Jan. 30, Public Health Ontario is reporting 3,019 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 587 people in intensive care units with COVID-19.

There are also 3,960 new COVID-19 cases, although new case counts are underestimated as testing is limited. 

The Jan. 30 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:

Cases

  • 6,503 recoveries and 55 deaths since yesterday's report. 
  • Among the new cases confirmed today are 623 unvaccinated people, 185 partially vaccinated people, 2,807 fully vaccinated people and 345 have unknown vaccination status. 
  • 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

  • 3,019 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. 
  • There are 587 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID-19. 
  • There are 358 COVID-19 patients on ventilators.
  • Not all hospitals report on weekends, so hospitalization numbers are incomplete on Sunday and Monday.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,030,251 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 971,889 recoveries and 11,412 deaths.

 



Amanda Rabski-McColl, LJI Reporter

About the Author: Amanda Rabski-McColl, LJI Reporter

Amanda Rabski-McColl is a Diversity Reporter under the Local Journalism Initiative, which is funded by the Government of Canada
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