COVID-19: Milton drops under 100 active cases

The Halton Region is reporting 56 new cases in Halton for Wednesday, February 3rd.

That brings the total amount to 8524 cases. With 8001 resolved cases and 163 deaths, Halton is now at 360 active cases – six more than yesterday.

In Milton, we have 11 new cases. That brings our total to 2694 cases. With 2567 resolved cases and 31 deaths, Milton is now at 96 active cases – five less than yesterday.

Looking at the ongoing outbreaks 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.
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 190 total cases reported during this outbreak. 113 have been residents, nine have been staff members, one is currently unspecified, and 67 are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including roughly 1,172 new cases province-wide. There have been 272,097 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 2, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	272,097On 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)	1,172	0.4% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	248,981	91.5
Change from previous report	1,745	0.7% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	14,607	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	6,250	2.3
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	6,305	2.3
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,647	57.8
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 2, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	106
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	1

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 2, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	133,156
Female	137,363
19 and under	35,621
20-39	99,443
40-59	78,615
60-79	39,275
80 and over	19,093

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 2, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	9,784,846
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	52,418
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	44,606

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 2, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	1,066
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}	336
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}on a ventilator with COVID-19	254

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