COVID-19: Outbreak at Maplehurst continues, leads to spike in numbers for Milton, Halton

A lot of new cases are being reported at Maplehurst Correctional Facility.

About 50 new cases have been reported from the outbreak. At the time of writing, ‘Congregate Living – 37’ has 240 cases on the Halton Region’s website. 113 of the cases are residents, nine are staff members, 46 are unspecified for now, and 72 are considered ‘non-Halton’ cases. Fortunately, there have been no reported deaths linked to the outbreak at Maplehurst.

Looking at the other major ongoing outbreak in Milton:

Since Sunday, January 10th, there have been 18 reported cases at Allendale. Eight are residents, two are staff members, three are unspecified, and the other five are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases. There have been two deaths. One was a resident, the other hasn’t been specified just yet.

The spike at Maplehurst gives Halton a total of 84 new cases. The total number is up to 8608 cases. With 8036 resolved cases and 168 deaths, Halton is now at 404 active cases – 44 more than yesterday.

In Milton, there are 67 new cases. The total number is 2761 cases. With 2571 resolved cases and 31 deaths, Milton is now at 159 active cases – 63 more than yesterday.

There are five more deaths in Halton. Two of the deaths appear to be Burlington residents (42 deaths total) , while the other three are Oakville residents (57 deaths total). Halton Hills remains at 38 deaths total.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including 1,563 new cases province-wide. There have been 273,660 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 3, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	273,660On February 1, Toronto Public Health (TPH) migrated COVID-19 data to CCM from their local CORES system. As data quality checks and remediation activities continue this week, fluctuations may occur.	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	1,563	0.6% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	250,937	91.7
Change from previous report	1,956	0.8% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	14,672	5.4
Subset of all cases that are reported as a health care worker^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}associated with long-term care outbreaks	6,300	2.3
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	6,393	2.3
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,683	57.6
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for health care workers^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}^{footnote 2[2]}in long-term care homes	10	0.2

Summary of confirmed variant of concern (VOC) cases: Ontario, up to February 3, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	152
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	1

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 3, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	133,928
Female	138,150
19 and under	35,819
20-39	99,977
40-59	79,093
60-79	39,516
80 and over	19,201

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 3, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	9,849,313
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	64,467
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	47,282

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 3, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	1,101
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}	323
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}on a ventilator with COVID-19	241

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