The Middlesex London Health Unit and Southwestern Public Health are both taking the day off Monday from updating their COVID-19 case dashboards.
Neither health unit has released updated figures since last Thursday. The reporting break comes as health unit offices were closed to mark the Easter long weekend.
The Middlesex London Health Unit is expected to lump-in the four days worth of figures it missed when regular reporting resumes on Tuesday. Southwestern Public Health will return to its regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday reporting scheduled on Wednesday.
The London Health Sciences Centre has also not released updated information on COVID-19 hospitalizations, intensive care admissions or staff infections since last week. At the time, there were 41 inpatients with the virus, including five or fewer in the ICU. There were also 321 hospital employees who had tested positive, the first time that figure had surpassed 300 since January 20.
Despite taking a reporting pause on Sunday, the province did release updated COVID-19 data on Monday.
There are currently 1,301 people with the virus in hospital, up from 1,290 on Sunday. A week ago there were 1,090 COVID positive people in Ontario hospitals.
Intensive care unit admissions increased by five to 202. It is the first time since March 16 the number of COVID positive ICU patients surpassed 200. While both hospitalizations and ICU numbers are up, they could actually be higher than what was released Monday as not all hospitals report over the weekend, public health officials reminded.
Ontario logged 2,219 new infections over the past 24 hours. But single-day case counts are considered to be an underestimation of community spread as the Ford government has restricted eligibility for publicly-funded COVID-19 tests since the end of December. The latest cases put Ontario’s total case count since the start of the pandemic to 1,222,243.
Public health officials confirmed two additional COVID-19 deaths on Monday. The provincial death toll since the pandemic began two years ago stands at 12,632.
The number of resolved cases are up by 2,382 to 1,174,111.
In the last 48 hour period, 20,511 COVID-19 tests were processed. Ontario’s positivity rate is now 18.7 per cent, up from 17.6 per cent last week.
There have been 32,397,809 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ontario as of Sunday night. Nearly 93 per cent of Ontarians 12 and older have received one dose of the vaccine, while 91.1 per cent have been given their second dose. To date, more than 7.2 million Ontarians have received a booster shot.
