Ontario Had More COVID-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations in 2022 Than 2021: Report

Respiratory Therapist Flor Guevara repositions a patient suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with the help of other healthcare workers, at Humber River Hospital's Intensive Care Unit, in Toronto, Ontario, on April 29, 2021. Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ontario were 31 percent higher in 2022 than in 2021, while deaths from the disease were 39 percent higher than the previous year, according to a new report from Public Health Ontario.

The newly-released data said there were a total of 22,559 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ontario in 2021, and 29,524 hospitalizations from the disease in 2022. Additionally, there were 5,485 deaths from COVID-19 in 2021, and 7,625 COVID-19 deaths in 2022.