Province reports 31 new deaths, 3,043 new COVID cases Monday

Editor's Note: This story was updated from an earlier version that included data from yesterday.

The province is reporting 31 new deaths and 3,043 new cases captured in limited testing in the latest daily COVID-19 update. 

There are approximately 2,983 COVID-positive people hospitalized, with 583 patients in intensive care units and 387 on ventilators. Weekend hospital reporting is incomplete, however, so it is not clear how many of the hospitalized patients were admitted because of COVID-related illness, or for other unrelated reasons while also testing positive for COVID.

Public Health Ontario has confirmed 1,033,294 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and reported 976,987 recoveries and 11,444 deaths.

The Jan. 31 updates provided by the province's public health agency and the ministry of health also reported the following data:

Cases

• 5,098 recoveries and 31 deaths
• There are 44,863 active, lab-confirmed cases in Ontario
• Among the new cases confirmed today are 529 unvaccinated people, 119 partially vaccinated people, and 2,125 fully vaccinated people. 270 cases were reported with vaccination status unknown. 
• The seven-day average incidence rate for cases is 30 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people, 22 cases per 100,000 partially vaccinated people, and 28 cases per 100,000 fully vaccinated people. 
• Lab-confirmed testing is mostly limited to Indigenous people, hospital patients, and those who live or work in high-risk congregate care settings. 

Hospitalizations

• 2,983 people are in hospital testing positive for COVID-19. 
• There are 583 patients in Ontario ICUs with COVID. 
• There are 347 COVID patients on ventilators.
• Hospitalization numbers are incomplete on Sunday and Monday as more than 10 per cent of Ontario hospitals don't report updated data on the weekends. As such, vaccination status of hospitalized cases is also not updated today.
• The breakdown of the number of people hospitalized because of COVID versus those who are hospitalized for other reasons while also testing positive for COVID is not updated on Sunday or Monday.

Testing

• Provincial labs processed 15,008 tests yesterday resulting in a 14.7 per cent positivity rate. There are 5,359 tests still being processed.

The cumulative average incidence rate in the province is 6,992.3 cases per 100,000 people in Ontario.

Ontario's average seven-day incidence rate from Jan. 20 to Jan. 26 was 244.2 cases per 100,000 people, which decreased 33 per cent over the seven-day period starting on Jan. 14.

For more on the province's breakdown of vaccination status, click here.

Northern Ontario 

In the north, there are currently 169 people with COVID-19 in hospital, down from 170 yesterday, according to provincial data. There are 32 people in ICU, which is the same as yesterday, and 16 people on ventilators, up from 15 yesterday. The regional data is not broken down to clarify the number of people in hospital for a COVID-related reason and who was admitted to hospital for another reason then tested positive.

Not all health units update their websites over the weekend and the data for Northern Ontario health units is not up-to-date yet.