Last Updated Wednesday, May 12, 2021 11:17AM EDT Ontario reported more than 2,300 new COVID-19 cases and 32 additional deaths on Wednesday, as the province’s positivity rate continues to decline. The province reported 2,716 cases on Monday, 3,216 on Sunday and 2,864 on Saturday. The seven-day rolling average has now dropped to 2,826, a notable decline from 3,432 seven days ago. Of the latest fatalities, one person was between 20 and 39 years old, five were between 40 and 59 years old, 18 were between 60 and 79 years old and eight were 80 years old and over. Ontario’s virus-related death toll now stands at 8,374. More than 3,000 lab-confirmed cases of variants of concern were identified in the past 24 hours, with over 2,900 being the dominant B.1.1.7 variant, which first emerged in the United Kingdom.
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Posted: May 11, 2021 10:15 AM ET | Last Updated: May 11
Health-care workers administer doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in MIssissauga earlier this month.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Ontario is now on track to administer first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 65 per cent of adults by the end of May, provincial health officials said Wednesday.
THUNDER BAY Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has increased its Intensive Care Unit capacity, as requested by the Critical Care Services Ontario Command Table.
So far, however, it has only received two patient transfers from southern Ontario where ICUs are under strain because of the rising prevalence of COVID-19.
Last week, provincial officials asked TBRHSC to increase its ICU ventilator capacity to 30, as a precaution.
The hospital said it expected to add the requested four additional beds by this past weekend.
On Monday, however, it reported that it has accepted only two transfers to date. TBRHSC is prepared with contingency plans for potentially receiving more patient transfers from other parts of the province, the hospital said in a statement.