COVID-19: Halton resident dead, Region’s active cases continue to drop

A Halton resident has been reported as dead from COVID-19.

Since Friday, February 19th, the Halton Region has recorded its 190th death from the virus. The death appears to have been a Halton Hills resident, giving the township 48 deaths total from COVID. Milton is at 35 deaths, Burlington has 49 deaths, and Oakville has 58 deaths.

Across Halton, there are 31 new cases of COVID-19. The total number is up to 9254 cases. With 8850 resolved cases and 190 deaths, Halton is now at 214 active cases – 30 less than Friday’s number.

In Milton, we have 14 new cases. That brings our total to 2938 cases. With 2833 resolved cases and 35 deaths, Milton is now at 70 active cases – nine more than Friday’s count.

Looking at Milton’s major ongoing outbreaks:

Since Sunday, January 10th, there have been 33 reported cases at Allendale. 19 are residents, three are staff members, three are unspecified, and the other eight are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases. There have been six deaths at the LTCH: five were residents, while the other one is 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 292 total cases reported during this outbreak. 188 have been residents, 12 have been staff members, and 92 are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including 1,058 new cases province-wide. There have been 294,144 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	294,144	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	1,058	0.4% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	276,937	94.2
Change from previous report	1,083	0.4% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	14,935	5.1
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	6,580	2.2
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	6,872	2.3
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,857	56.1
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for health care workers^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}^{footnote 2[2]}in long-term care homes	10	0.1

Summary of confirmed variant of concern (VOC) cases: Ontario, up to February 21, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	390
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	9
Lineage P.1 (Brazilian variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	1

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	144,428
Female	148,163
19 and under	38,910
20-39	107,658
40-59	85,051
60-79	42,423
80 and over	20,041

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	10,725,321
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	31,163
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	11,883

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	646As we often observe on weekends, more than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the Daily Bed Census. We anticipate the number of hospitalized patients may increase when reporting compliance increases.
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}	280
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}on a ventilator with COVID-19	189

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