COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ontario have gone up roughly 30 per cent compared to a week ago.
The province is reporting 857 people in hospital with the virus today, compared with 655 last Monday.
There is also a small increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care – to 168 from 158 a week ago.
As is typically the case, the province says more than 10 per cent of hospitals didn’t provide an update on occupancy over the weekend.
Test positivity rate has gone up to 19 per cent, the highest since mid-January, when it hit 24.5 during the Omicron wave.
No new COVID-19 deaths are reported in the province today.
