COVID-19: Nearly 30 new cases around Halton heading into the weekend

We have a spike in new cases for Halton heading into the weekend.

Across the region, there are 29 new cases today. The total number of cases is up to 19,346. With 18,950 resolved cases and 241 deaths, Halton is now at 155 active cases, six more cases than Thursday’s update. The Region says that of the 19,346 total cases, 18,685 were confirmed positive while 661 were considered probable cases.

In Milton, we have six new cases. That brings us to 6201 total cases. With 6121 resolved cases and 46 deaths, Milton is at 34 active cases, one less case than Thursday’s updates. The Region says that of the 6201 total cases, 5970 were confirmed positive while 231 were considered probable cases.

The Halton Region is detailing the number of COVID-19 variant cases. It says that 6520 total variant cases have been found in Halton. Milton has reportedly had 2220 total variant cases.

An outbreak has been declared in Milton. It was first declared on Wednesday, September 8th. It is labelled as ‘Workplace – 158’. There are now 16 reported cases. Two are considered Halton cases. 14 are ‘non-Halton’ cases.

A second outbreak has been declared in Milton, this time a school. Hawthorne Village Public School has two cases, both Halton cases. The outbreak was declared on Thursday, September 16th.

Looking at vaccination numbers, a total of 864,309 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Halton. 777,536 of the doses were to Halton residents.

435,480 second doses have been administered in Halton. 390,366 of those have been Halton residents.

Here’s a breakdown on ages of those receiving doses:

• 37,581 first doses and 43,316 second doses have been administered to people aged 12-17;
• 38,045 first doses and 40,371 second doses have been administered to people aged 18-24;
• 24,864 first doses and 25,005 second doses have been administered to people aged 25-29;
• 29,217 first doses and 29,030 second doses have been administered to people aged 30-34;
• 33,670 first doses and 33,842 second doses have been administered to people aged 35-39;
• 36,024 first doses and 36,908 second doses have been administered to people aged 40-44;
• 37,481 first doses and 38,548 second doses have been administered to people aged 45-49;
• 36,484 first doses and 37,077 second doses have been administered to people aged 50-54;
• 35,095 first doses and 34,673 second doses have been administered to people aged 55-59;
• 28,636 first doses and 28,280 second doses have been administered to people aged 60-64;
• 25,219 first doses and 24,222 second doses have been administered to people aged 65-69;
• 22,812 first doses and 22,186 second doses have been administered to people aged 70-74;
• 17,214 first doses and 16,992 second doses have been administered to people aged 75-79;
• 24,655 first doses and 24,338 second doses have been administered to people aged 80+; and,
• 1,832 first doses and 712 second doses are pending.

The following is where the vaccine doses have been administered:

• 73,137 first doses and 93,576 second doses have been administered through pharmacies and physicians’ offices;
• 13,812 first doses and 9970 second doses have been administered through the Halton Region Public Health and Paramedic Mobile Teams;
• 341,880 first doses and 331,934 second doses have been administered through community and hospital-based clinics.

The Halton Region says that out of the 447,456 Halton residents who are immunized with two doses of the COVID-19, 0.09% of them have tested positive for the virus after vaccination. For Milton, there are 92,897 fully immunized residents – 0.09% of them have tested positive for the virus after vaccination.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including 727 new cases province-wide. There have been 582,635 total cases in Ontario.