On Feb. 6, Public Health Ontario is reporting 2,230 COVID-positive patients in hospital and 486 people in intensive care units with COVID.
There are also 2,887 new COVID cases, although new case counts are underestimated as testing is limited.
The Feb. 6 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:
Cases
- 4,442 recoveries and 56 deaths since yesterday's report.
- Complete vaccination status numbers for Sunday's report were not available at the time of writing and will be added as they become available
- 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
- 2,230 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. Of those, 54 per cent were hospitalized because of COVID-19 and the other 46 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 486 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID. Of those, 80 per cent were admitted because of COVID-19 and the other 20 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID.
- There are 276 COVID patients on ventilators.
- Not all hospitals report on weekends, so hospitalization numbers are incomplete on Sunday and Monday.
Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,054,061 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 1,007,332 recoveries and 11,825 deaths.
