Ontario reports lowest COVID-19 positivity rate since end of February

Ontario is reporting one other 13 deaths associated to COVID-19 because the positivity charge within the province continues to slowly decline.

On Saturday, officers mentioned that simply over 12,000 PCR checks have yielded a positivity charge of about 8.9 per cent. That is the bottom positivity charge the province has seen because the finish of February.

Nearly all of Ontario residents can't be correctly examined for COVID-19 on account of restrictions put in place by the federal government.

Wastewater knowledge offered by the province’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Desk seems to point out a continued decline in an infection in most areas, though northern Ontario and the Larger Toronto Space seem like seeing a small uptick.

Twelve of the 13 COVID-19 deaths have occurred during the last month whereas the remaining case was added to the cumulative whole on account of knowledge catchup.

In whole, 13,159 individuals have misplaced their lives after contracting the illness.

Officers say there are 1,116 individuals in hospital with the novel coronavirus, together with 160 in intensive care.

Slightly below half of ICU sufferers are being handled for COVID-19 whereas the remaining sufferers examined constructive after being admitted for different illnesses.

Almost 39 per cent of all hospitalizations are the direct results of a COVID-19 prognosis.

Because the starting of the pandemic, Ontario has logged 1,294,447 lab-confirmed instances of COVID-19.