COVID-19: Three Halton residents are reported dead coming out of weekend

Three Halton residents have reportedly died from COVID-19 over the weekend.

The three deaths are Burlington (44 deaths total), Halton Hills (40), and Oakville (58) residents. That brings Halton to 174 deaths total.

Across the Region, there are 31 new cases. The total count is now 8791 cases. With 8225 resolved cases and 174 deaths, Halton now has 392 active cases – four less than what was reported on Friday.

In Milton, we have six new cases. Our total is now 2807 cases. With 2616 resolved cases and 32 deaths, Milton now has 159 active cases – four less than Friday’s count.

Looking at Milton’s ongoing outbreaks:

Since Sunday, January 10th, there have been 23 reported cases at Allendale. 11 are residents, two are staff members, four are unspecified, and the other six are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases. There have been three deaths. Two were residents, 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 256 total cases reported during this outbreak. 166 have been residents, ten have been staff members, two are currently unspecified, and 78 are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including 1,265 new cases province-wide. There have been 279,472 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 7, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	279,472	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	1,265	0.5% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	258,603	92.5
Change from previous report	1,700	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]}	14,809	5.3
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	6,425	2.3
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	6,538	2.3
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,740	57.2
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 7, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	219
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	1

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 7, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	136,775
Female	141,054
19 and under	36,582
20-39	102,149
40-59	80,816
60-79	40,370
80 and over	19,503

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 7, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	10,054,325
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	28,303
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	10,693

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 7, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	901As 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]}	335
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}on a ventilator with COVID-19	226

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