On April 9, Public Health Ontario is reporting 1,188 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 140 people in intensive care units with COVID.
There are 168 patients in ICU with COVID-related illness, but 28 of those individuals are no longer testing positive for COVID.
Public Health Ontario is also reporting 10 new deaths that occurred in the past month. There is also one additional death that has been added to the cumulative total based on data cleaning.
There are also 3,797 new COVID cases, although new case counts are underestimated as testing is limited.
The April 9 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 2,300 recoveries and 10 deaths since yesterday's report.
- Among the latest cases, 2,286 of the individuals have received three doses, 937 have received two doses, 423 are not fully vaccinated and 151 have an 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
- 1,188 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 168 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID. Of those, 64 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and the other 36 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 76 COVID patients on ventilators.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,192,437 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 1,149,833 recoveries and 12,548 deaths.
