COVID-19-related death, although the number of patients in area hospitals with the virus did rise on Tuesday.A new death had been reported each weekday since Jan.
20 prior to Tuesday’s update. Ontario’s ‘Go-Vaxx’ mobile COVID vaccination clinics now accepting walk-ins There are now 87 patients in the three hospitals suffering from COVID-19, with 19 of those needing intensive care.
That means there are three more patients in hospital, although the ICU number remains unchanged from Monday.There were also 88 new positive tests for the coronavirus on Tuesday, lifting the total number of cases in the area to 39,207.This drops the rolling seven-day average number of new daily cases to 110.9.
A week ago, that number was 163.71, but the testing numbers are considered an underestimation of actual community caseload since changes to testing availability have decreased the veracity of the totals.Only 16 more people were cleared of the virus, although that total does fall on the heels of Monday’s report, where there were close to 1,000 people cleared over the previous three days.