The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has reached a two-month high.
A health-care worker pushes a patient across a footbridge into a hospital, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, in Montreal, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
It is the highest number of people in hospital with COVID-19 since Aug. 4 and is approaching the peak of the summer wave on July 28 when 1,492 people were hospitalized. The rise began showing up in the province-wide data around the second week of September but has only recently been apparent in GTA-specific data.Epidemiologists and public health experts have long warned of a fall wave and in recent weeks have raised concerns about , which have made up an increasing share of cases in some European countries but are not yet circulating widely in Ontario.
The latest data released by the ministry revealed that there were 8,627 new cases of COVID-19 detected through PCR testing over the last seven days, marking the fourth consecutive week in which that number has rose.Positivity rates also continue to rise. Over the last seven days the average positivity rate on PCR tests was 13.57 per cent, up from 12.42 per cent one week ago.
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