COVID-19 case and hospital numbers, the province’s chief medical officer of health says.Dr. David Williams issued the stoppage on April 20 due to increasing COVID case counts, hospitalizations and ICU admissions as the province grappled with the third wave of the virus.
COVID-19: Ontario hospitals ramp down elective surgeries to increase ICU capacity “This was done in an effort to ensure that our health resources could be focused where they were most urgently needed,” Williams said in a release Wednesday. “Such measures are never taken lightly, and we recognize the impact they have had on patients waiting for their scheduled surgeries and procedures, and on health care providers across the province.”On Wednesday, Ontario reported 1,588.