Ontario reports 13,578 new COVID cases, more people admitted to hospital and ICUs

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said there are 248 people in intensive care with COVID-19, which is an increase of 24 patients from the previous day.

Ontario is reporting more than 13,500 new COVID cases on Monday, as case counts continue to hover around unprecedented highs. The provincial case total now stands at 805,098.

Health Minister Christine Elliott said there were 13,578 new infections. Monday’s count is a slight dip from Sunday which saw 16,714 new infections and from Saturday’s record-breaking 18,445 new cases.

The seven-day average has now reached 14,074, up drastically from a week ago when it was at 7,550.

Elliott said there are 248 people in intensive care with COVID-19, which is an increase of 24 compared with Sunday’s report.

For general hospitalizations, Elliott said there are 1,232 people with a COVID-related illness, up from 1,117 reported the previous day.

Elliott noted that not all hospitals submit reports due to the weekend.

Although Elliott released some data via Twitter, full datasets by the government were not released due to the holidays and are expected to be released on Tuesday.

Testing volume or positivity data, active cases, recoveries, deaths or the vaccination status for cases and hospitalizations was not available.