Ontario reports 3,469 COVID-19 cases, 22 deaths as hospitalizations top 2,300

Ontario reported 3,469 cases of COVID-19 and 22 deaths on Tuesday as hospitalizations soar.

The numbers reported Tuesday come as the province completed 40,596 tests. The reported positivity rate, which takes into account the date tests were done, is 10 per cent.

There were 90,409 vaccine doses administered on Monday, with the total number of vaccines administered to date just shy of 4 million.

But the province says the vaccine number is actually higher than reported, noting that the Rogers outage forced some vaccine clinics to report their data on paper.

There are 347,597 who have received both required vaccine doses and are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

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There are 2,360 COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the province. There are 773 patients in intensive care, with 537 of them on ventilators.

That’s up from the 2,202 hospitalized patients reported on Monday.

The death toll is 7,757 people.

Another 3,369 cases of the virus have been marked as resolved.