COVID-19: Two more Halton residents are dead, only five new cases in Milton

Two more Halton residents are dead from COVID-19.

The deaths give the Region 179 total from the virus. They were both Burlington residents, giving the city 47 deaths total. For reference, Halton Hills has 41 deaths, Milton has 33 deaths, and Oakville has 58 deaths from COVID-19.

Across Halton, there are 37 new cases. That brings the total to 8912 cases. With 8330 resolved cases and 179 deaths, Halton is now at 403 active cases – 15 more than Wednesday’s count.

In Milton, we have five new cases. That brings our total case count to 2837. With 2655 resolved cases and 33 deaths, Milton is now at 149 active cases – one less than yesterday.

Looking at Milton’s major ongoing outbreaks:

Since Sunday, January 10th, there have been 26 reported cases at Allendale. 12 are residents, two are staff members, six are unspecified, and the other six are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases. There have been four deaths at the LTCH: two were residents, while the other two are still not specified.
On Monday, January 18th, the Halton Region reported an outbreak at what is classified as ‘Congregate Living – 37’. It’s believed that this is Maplehurst Correctional Facility, which was reportedly experiencing an outbreak at the same time of the same magnitude. As of the time of writing, there have been 275 total cases reported during this outbreak. 177 have been residents, nine have been staff members, four are currently unspecified, and 85 are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including roughly 945 new cases province-wide. There have been 282,511 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 10, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	282,511	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	945 As part of Toronto Public Health’s (TPH) migration to CCM, TPH case counts are under-reported today, resulting in an underestimate of the daily counts.	0.3% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	263,044	93.1
Change from previous report	1,344	0.5% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	N/A	N/A
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	6,449	2.3
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	6,614	2.3
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,769	57.0
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 10, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	236
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	3

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 10, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	138,346
Female	142,510
19 and under	36,998
20-39	103,309
40-59	81,653
60-79	40,857
80 and over	19,642

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 10, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	10,206,439
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	68,812
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	43,383

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 10, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	883
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}	299
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}on a ventilator with COVID-19	211

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