The health ministry said 12 of the deaths reported on Wednesday had occurred in the last 30 days and one had occurred before that period.
Five of the deaths involved residents of the long-term care system.
A total of 71 deaths were reported last week and 12,427 have been confirmed since the pandemic began in March 2020.
Hospitals rose from 661 a week ago to 778 today, though they fell from 790 on Tuesday.
Of these, 165 patients are in the intensive care unit, unchanged from yesterday and 94 are breathing with a ventilator, 10 more than yesterday.
A growing number of epidemiologists believe the province is now entering a sixth wave of COVID-19, driven largely by the more contagious BA.2 Omicron subtype.
UHN Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr.  Isaac Bogoch says he believes a spring wave was inevitable, but the scale of its impact is still under our control.
“I do not think it could have been prevented, I think we would have had a spring wave no matter what we did, but the extent to which this affects us here in Ontario depends very much on what we do and how they are proactive and react to that too “, he told CP24.
“I think if people continue to wear masks and most people wear masks, it will help ease the tide.”
A provincial order requiring masks in most indoor public spaces, including schools, expired nine days ago.
He said the prevailing wisdom among epidemiologists and immunologists is that vaccination along with previous infection will make this wave less severe than the Omicron wave in December and January.
“We do not want anyone to catch COVID, we do not want anyone to get sick, we do not want anyone to go to the hospital and we do not want anyone to die, but it will probably be a smaller wave than we just had.”
The value of previous infection in developing COVID-19 immunity, especially Omicron and BA.2, has been the subject of considerable debate among researchers, with some saying it can effectively prevent re-infection for months and others saying it is minimal. or unknown value.
A national database study conducted in Qatar and published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month found that the previous infection prevented re-infection in 90% of cases during the Alpha and Delta periods, but only in 56% during during the Omicron. 
Ontario’s COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board says the March 23 sewage monitoring data show increases in transmission across each province, with the sharpest increases in northern and central Ontario, east of GTA.
The Ministry of Health reports that of the 2,814 cases confirmed by PCR tests on Wednesday, 312 involved unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals, 773 involved two-dose vaccines and 1,530 vaccinated three-dose vaccines, while the vaccination status of 199 others was unknown. .
Even with only those groups still eligible for free PCR testing, such as the unvaccinated elderly, health care workers, the homeless and the first responders, the number of cases has been steadily rising for more than a week.
Today’s limited measurement is the highest since February 12, although the suitability for testing remains static during this period.
Provincial laboratories processed 17,309 samples, generating a positivity rate of 15.1 percent.
The county says 8,484 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were given on Tuesday.
Of these, 1,045 were the first installments, 2,131 were the second installments and 4,019 were the third installments.
The numbers used in this story are in the Ontario Department of Health’s Daily Epidemiological Summary COVID-19.  The number of cases for any city or region may differ slightly from that reported by the province, as local units report data at different times.