Ontario COVID-19 Update: March 6

Ontario COVID-19 Update: March 6's Profile

COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario continue their downswing.

The province reported 684 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 Sunday, 111 less than Saturday’s report.

Of those patients, 247 are in the ICU, six less than Saturday.

There were 17 more deaths announced from the last month and four others added from more than a month ago.

It brings the death toll in the province to 12,570.

There were 1,787 cases reported Sunday, but Public Health Ontario admits case counts are an underestimate of the true number of individuals with COVID-19 in the province.

The number of known active cases went up to 16,994 but that number is also underestimated due to the province’s testing limitations.

There were 12,119 tests completed the day prior to this report with a backlog of 3,067 tests.

The province is reporting a positivity rate of 10.2 per cent.

So far in Ontario, 31,791,237 vaccines have been administered.

According to the province, 12,577,457 people have at least one dose, 12,038,611 people have received two doses and 7,041,051 have three doses.

In Ontario, 89.75 per cent of eligible residents five and up have their first shot and 85.92 per cent have two doses.

Right now, third doses are only open to those 12 and up and 54.44 per cent have three shots.

Cases by Vaccination Status
Unvaccinated	205
Partially Vaccinated	47
Fully Vaccinated	1,416
Unknown	119
Total	1,787

Vaccination Status	In Hospital – Non ICU	In ICU
Unvaccinated	181	62
Partially Vaccinated	36	5
Fully Vaccinated	429	66

Ontario ICU information	Adult cases	Pediatric
COVID-related ICU patients	241	5
Non-COVID-related ICU patients	1,415	42
Total ICU patients	1,656	57
Total ICU beds in Ontario	2,343	105
Available ICU beds	687	48

Age Group	At least one dose	Fully vaccinated	Three doses
5-11yrs	591,614	315,403	35
12-17yrs	861,139	875,441	98,077
18-29yrs	2,206,667	2,117,662	900,729
30-39yrs	1,842,250	1,784,220	916,384
40-49yrs	1,682,052	1,644,197	962,895
50-59yrs	1,857,040	1,823,557	1,245,471
60-69yrs	1,719,976	1,693,565	1,356,554
70-79yrs	1,139,839	1,124,125	984,566
80+	674,854	659,482	576,286
Adults 18+	11,122,678	10,846,808	6,942,885
Ontario 12+	11,983,817	11,722,249	7,040,962
Ontario 5+	12,575,431	12,037,652	7,040,997
Undisclosed	2,026	959	54
Age Group	% with one dose	% fully vaccinated	% with three doses
5-11yrs	54.85%	29.24%	0.00%
12-17yrs	89.58%	91.06%	10.20%
18-29yrs	88.79%	85.21%	36.24%
30-39yrs	90.54%	87.69%	45.04%
40-49yrs	90.75%	88.71%	51.95%
50-59yrs	90.94%	89.30%	60.99%
60-69yrs	97.44%	95.94%	76.85%
70-79yrs	99.99%	99.08%	86.78%
80+	99.99%	99.99%	87.87%
Adults 18+	92.91%	90.61%	58.00%
Ontario 12+	92.66%	90.64%	54.44%
Ontario 5+	89.75%	85.92%	50.25%

*Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to March 5, 2022*
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases	1,113,210	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	1,787	0.2% increase
Resolved	1,083,646	97.3
Change from previous report	1,645	0.2% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents	24,897	2.2
Subset of all cases that are reported as a health care worker associated with long-term care outbreaks	11,513	1.0
Total number of deaths	12,570 Four deaths occurred more than one month ago and were added to the cumulative count based on data cleaning.	1.1
New deaths reported	17	0.1% increase
Deaths reported for residents in long-term care homes	4,497	35.8
Deaths reported for health care workersin long-term care homes	10	0.1

*Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to March 5, 2022*
Case characteristics	Number
Male	529,462
Female	577,357
0-4	33,221
5-11	67,004
12-19	95,810
20-39	425,824
40-59	308,883
60-79	134,046
80 and over	48,051

*Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to March 5, 2022*
Testing	Number
Total tests completed	23,199,885
Total tests completed in the previous day	12,119
Currently under investigation	3,607

*Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to March 5, 2022*
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19	684 As we often observe on weekends, more than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the Daily Bed Census. We anticipate the number of hospitalized patients may increase when reporting compliance increases.
Total patients in ICU due to COVID-related critical illness	247
Number of patients currently in ICU, testing positive for COVID	204
Number of patients currently in ICU due to COVID, no longer testing positive for COVID	43
Total patients in ICU on a ventilator due to COVID-related critical illness	134
Number of patients currently in ICU on a ventilator with COVID-19	107
Patients in ICU due to COVID on a ventilator, no longer testing positive for COVID	27