Ontario COVID-19: 21 deaths reported in last week

Advertisement Ontario officials have confirmed 21 new COVID-19 deaths over the last week while hospitalizations related to the disease continue to slowly drop. Provincial data about COVID-19 is now released weekly in Ontario every Thursday at 2 p.m. The most recent data shows 486 people are being treated with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals. This represents a slight dip from the 491 patients in hospital reported a week before. Of those in hospital, about 43 per cent are being treated specifically for COVID-19 while the rest of the patients tested positive after admission. There are 96 people in intensive care with COVID-19 as of June 23 and the province says that about 61 per cent were admitted due to the novel coronavirus. A week ago there were 109 COVID-19 patients in …
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