Ontario health officials reported another drop in the number of people with COVID-19 in hospital and intensive care units Friday.
The province said 2,634 people are currently in hospital with COVID-19. On Thursday, officials said that 2,797 people were in hospital with the disease.
Health officials also said there are 517 people with COVID-19 in ICUs across the province. On Thursday, that number was 541.
The number of people in hospital and ICU with COVID-19 has been dropping steadily for several days now.
The province also reported that 60 more people have died due to COVID-19.
A spokesperson for Ontario Ministry of Health stated 58 deaths of the deaths reported on Friday happened over the past 22 days, while the remaining two deaths took happened over a month ago.
The province said eight of the deaths occurred on Feb. 3, while 19 of the deaths occurred on Feb. 2. Eight more of the deaths occurred on Feb. 1 and the remaining 23 deaths occurred previous to that.
Officials said a total 11,711 COVID-19-related deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
The provixjmtzywnce reported 4,047 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, but health officials have warned that number is an underestimate due to testing limitations and backlogs.
With 25,118 tests processed in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says the province’s positivity rate is about 12 per cent.
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A registered nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient on the respirology unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
